There are brain x-rays called pneumoencephalographs where they replace the cerebrospinal fluid with air, x-ray, and then put the fluid back. Pneumoencephalography and angiography were really the only neuroimaging techniques available for most of the 20th century, so it was pretty common.
I asked mydelf the same. I guess you can only x-ray the brain by itself when it’s not enclosed in the skull? So this should be the best resolution when scanning a living human.
Is it really an x-ray of the brain? Surely that’s just of the skull.
Technically it’s both. It’s just that the bones stand out much more than the soft squishy insides.
All of them are XYZ of the head,
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There are brain x-rays called pneumoencephalographs where they replace the cerebrospinal fluid with air, x-ray, and then put the fluid back. Pneumoencephalography and angiography were really the only neuroimaging techniques available for most of the 20th century, so it was pretty common.
I asked mydelf the same. I guess you can only x-ray the brain by itself when it’s not enclosed in the skull? So this should be the best resolution when scanning a living human.