title: Gamma knife surgery for choroidal neovascularization in age-related macular degeneration. Technical note.
abstract: The authors conducted a study to determine a way of overcoming the poor-quality demonstration of choroidal neovascularization (CNV) associated with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) on conventional magnetic resonance (MR) imaging studies. The poor MR imaging demonstration of CNV in patients with AMD makes the use of gamma knife surgery more difficult. This difficulty, however, can be overcome by use of a modified time-of-flight MR imaging,sequence with Gd enhancement and coronal reconstruction.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Neurosurgery, Neuroradiology, and Ophthalmology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan. GKRmoto@aol.com
authors.forename: Motohiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.forename: Mikhail
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chernov
authors.forename: Masao
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Usukura
authors.forename: Kayoko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Abe
authors.forename: Yuko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ono
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Izawa
authors.forename: Sadao
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hori
authors.forename: Tomokatsu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hori
authors.forename: Kintomo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takakura
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D020256:Choroidal Neovascularization / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D008268:Macular Degeneration / Q000150:complications*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D016634:Radiosurgery / Q000295:instrumentation*