Cranial computed tomography
CCT exam in a patient with a left-brain stroke .
The cranial computed tomography ( CCT ) is a radiological examination method with which the brain in particular , but also bony parts , vessels, cerebral chambers with cerebral fluid as well as the other soft tissues inside the skull and many pathological changes in these structures can be visualized by means of disk-like cross- sectional images . It is an imaging procedure that is of great importance for modern neurology .
Diagnosis
- Midline course
- Width of the internal and external CSF spaces
- Differentiation of gray and white matter
- Space claims
- Focus-shaped or areal density deviations
- Basal ganglia
- Pituitary gland
- Enhancement
- bone
