CT and MRI Scans in Neurological Practice: A Quick Overview
| Before computed tomographic (CT) scans became | the bony brain-case, but not the brain itself. We had | |||
| available in the 1970s, there was no good method for | arteriograms which imaged the insides of | |||
| imaging the brain. The available methods and | blood-vessels supplying the brain. We had nuclear | |||
| technologies struck around the target without quite | brain scans which imaged chunks of brain that were | |||
| hitting the bull's-eye.We had skull x-rays which imaged | recently damaged. |