Intracranial vessels with color Doppler echoencephalography in infants.

A technique for imaging of the intracranial vessels in infants was described, which used high resolution, commercially available, color Doppler ultrasonography (real-time two-dimensional Doppler). On 12 normal infants, serial scans were obtained in sagittal, coronal, and axial plains. A large number of intracranial arteries and veins could be clearly demonstrated in real-time, including anterior cerebral artery, pericallosal artery, middle cerebral artery, posterior cerebral artery, basilar artery, communicating artery, internal cerebral vein, inferior and superior sagittal sinuses, great cerebral vein, straight sinus, occipital sinus and transverse sinus. In conclusion, color Doppler examination is useful in the detection of vessels in infants and in the measurement of intracranial blood flow velocity.