Glossary

Superficial Temporal Artery

A stent retriver.  A mechanical device used in an endovascular procedure to remove a blood clot from a major vessel in an organ such as the brain or heart to re-establish blood flow.

Short Tau Inversion Recovery – A sequence in MR imaging that suppresses the intensity of fat in the image.

Supratentorial tumors of the lateral and third ventricle

Refers to outside the intima layer of a blood vessel.  The are three layers if tissue that make up the walls of a blood vessel, the intima (inner layer), the media and the adventitia.  Subintimal typically refers to something between the intimal and medial layers,

aka BOLD (blood-oxyegen-level dependent) image or BOLD venography. This is a MRI imaging technique that is extremely sensitive to venous blood, hemorrhage and iron storage. It is particularly good at imaging venous blood.

aka BOLD (blood-oxyegen-level dependent) image or BOLD venography. This is a MRI imaging technique that is extremely sensitive to venous blood, hemorrhage and iron storage. It is particularly good at imaging venous blood.

Simian Virus 40 or Simian vacuolating virus 40 – a polyomavirus that is found in both monkeys and humans. As with other polyomaviruses, it is a DNA virus that can cause tumors.

aka BOLD (blood-oxygen-level dependent) image or BOLD venography. This is a MRI imaging technique that is extremely sensitive to venous blood, hemorrhage and iron storage. It is particularly good at imaging venous blood.

This is the line drawn from the anterior aspect of the posterior arch of C1 to the anterior aspect of the posterior arch of C3.  If the anterior aspect of the posterior arch of C2 is more than 2 mm anterior to this line it indicates a subluxation of C2 as would occur with a Hangman’s fracture.