Jeanette Dadds BHH

Louise Bishop GHH

Shirley Atkinson SHH

CT Clinical Co-ordinators
APRIL 2011
NORMAL ANATOMY
NORMAL ANATOMY AND POSITIONING.

Brain
stem
Ethmoid
Orbit
Sinuses

Ears

Mastoid
CSF air cells

Brain
medulla
stem
 Frontal
Temporal sinuses
lobe

Frontal
lobe

Cerebellum Pons
Parietal Frontal
lobe lobe

4th
ventricle
3rd
ventricle Sylvian
fissure

Occipital
lobe
Quadrigeminal
plate cistern
 Falx

Pineal
gland
 Parietal
lobe

Occipital horn
Choroid of the lateral
plexus ventricle.
White Cortical
matter sulci

White
Matter

gyrus
 Skull

Falx
cerebri

Superior
sagittal
sinus
Common Pathologies
ACUTE MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY INFARCT.
EARLY LEFT MCA INFARCT HEAD CAUDATE
NUCLEUS.
OLD INFARCT
EXTRA DURAL HAEMATOMA.
USUALLY RUPTURE OF MIDDLE MENINGEAL ARTERY.
 ACUTE SUBDURAL HAEMATOMA SUBACUTE SUBDURAL HAEMATOMA
SUBDURAL SPACE BETWEEN THE DURA AND ARACHNOID MENINGES
SUBARACHNOID HAEMORRHAGE SAH.
BLOOD IN THE SPACE BETWEEN THE ARACHNOID AND PIA MENINGES.
SUBARACHNOID WITH EXTENSION INTO THE SYLVIAN FISSURES AND SULCI.
DILATED TEMPORAL LOBES INCREASCED ICP.
PRE AND POST CONTRAST. VASOGENIC OEDEMA + TUMOUR
MCA INFARCT RIGHT TEMPOAL LOBE.
ENHANCING LESION IN CEREBELLUM.
RIGHT MCA INFARCT. PERIVENTICULAR CHANGES. FRONTAL ATROPHY.
Any Questions?