Tools and Research Facilities:
• Neurovascular Biplane Suite with 3D rotational angiography
• 3D animation and rendering Laboratory for surgery simulation
and treatment planning
• High resolution high field MRI/MRA with quantum gradients
• B.C. Anesthesiologist with full sedation capabilities
• High resolution multi-detector CT Angiography
• Xenon CT and Perfusion MRI for quantitative perfusion
assessment
• Diffusion imaging and Spectroscopy
• Triplex ultrasound for carotid and transcranial evaluation

Keeping Current:
Equipment and technologies are rapidly changing. The
team at PNC is actively involved in evaluating the latest
in drug therapies, surgical hardware, stents, embolization
materials, as well as treatment planning and implementation.
Clinical & Bench trials are ongoing in areas including:
afferent stimulation of coma patients, carotid stenting
with brain protection, new noninvasive imaging
techniques for aneurysm patients, and with protein &
polymer based endovascular embolic materials.

Intra-operative angiography is available at all times, if needed, often sparing the patient additional angiography or surgery at a later date

Assessing venous drainage of a 30 year-old female patient with a dural arterovenous fistula and bilateral transverse sinus occlusion
Pre-embolization for a
basilar tip aneurysm
3D real time reconstruction of a giant petrouscavernous aneurysm using the most powerful & accurate Neuro Biplane angio unit currently available (PhilipsMedical).