Neuroradiologists find gentler angiography excellent for diagnosis, kinder to patients

This article describes safe, noninvasive method that images blood vessels in the head and neck which has given neuroradiologists a powerful new look at the brain during the last few years. While most investigators agree that magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) will never completely obviate conventional invasive angiography, many believe it has the potential to dramatically alter the evaluation and follow-up of patients with brain tumors, aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, vascular stenoses and occlusions, and several other neurovascular pathologies