Prompt diagnosis of stroke and neurovascular diseases requires neurological examination and a range of brain and neck imaging studies. The Henry Ford Stroke and Neurovascular Center provides state-of-the-art imaging diagnostic studies including:
CT
Perfusion CT
CT Angiography
High Field 3T MRI
MR Angiography
Perfusion and Diffusion-Weighted MRI
MR Spectroscopy
Diffusion Tensor MRI
Functional MRI
Single Photon Emission Tomography (SPECT)
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) CT scan
Catheter Cerebral Angiography
Magnetoencephalography (MEG)
Henry Ford Hospital's Neuroradiology Division operates 24 hours daily to provide stroke patients with immediate access to state-of-the-art imaging equipment. Henry Ford Hospital is one of a few institutions in the world to operate a 64-slice helical CT scanner. This technology is revolutionizing the way in which physicians locate vulnerable areas of the brain that have been affected by stroke and may still respond to treatment. Diffusion-, perfusion-, susceptibility-weighted-, and diffusion tensor MRI, functional MRI, and MR spectroscopy are other unique imaging capabilities that pinpoint which brain tissue has been destroyed and which might be able to be preserved with therapy.
The hospital houses the only magnetoencephalography (MEG) laboratory in the Midwest, operated by the Department of Neurology. It also houses a 3-Tesla MRI scanner, one of the few high field MRI scanners in the United States and the only one in southeast Michigan designated for clinical use. The MEG and 3-T MRI technology is used in conjunction with select treatments to track brain tissue recovery, as well as in neurological studies of brain plasticity to determine what areas of the brain have "rewired" following stroke.
