Neuroimaging Techniques

What is it?

Loyola University Health System boasts state-of-the-art neuroimaging techniques to make a rapid and accurate diagnosis of disorders of the brain. A fast diagnosis is particularly important for patients having a stroke, where a quick treatment may be a matter of life and death. For all of our diagnostics, a physician will work with you to find the technique most appropriate to your symptoms or condition, and can discuss them in more detail with you. Our testing techniques include:

• Carotid ultrasonography
• Catheter cerebral angiography
• Computed tomography (CT)
• Computed tomography angiography (CTA)
• Computed tomography perfusion (CT Perfusion)
• Functional MRI
• Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
• Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA)
• Magnetic resonance venography (MRV)
• MR spectroscopy
• MR tractography
• MRI diffusion/perfusion
• PET scanning
• Transcranial doppler sonography

The Loyola difference

For the fifth year in a row, Loyola University Medical Center has won the Get with the Guidelines® - Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association. U.S. News & World Report also ranked us as a high-performing hospital in Neurology and Neurosurgery. Loyola has been certified by the Joint Commission as an Advanced Primary Stroke Center.