Melina Gassenhuber, Maximilian E Lochschmidt, Johannes Hammel, Tobias Boeckh-Behrens, Benno Ikenberg, Silke Wunderlich, Friederike Liesche-Starnecker, Jürgen Schlegel, Franz Pfeiffer, Marcus R Makowski, Claus Zimmer, Isabelle Riederer, Daniela Pfeiffer
BACKGROUND: Nowadays, there is no method to quantitatively characterize the material composition of acute ischemic stroke thrombi prior to intervention, but dual-energy CT (DE-CT) offers imaging-based multimaterial decomposition. We retrospectively investigated the material composition of thrombi ex vivo using DE-CT with histological analysis as a reference. METHODS: Clots of 70 patients with acute ischemic stroke were extracted by mechanical thrombectomy and scanned ex vivo in formalin-filled tubes with DE-CT...
April 5, 2024: European Radiology Experimental