Transcranial Doppler Testing

Prime Neurological Imaging provides Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound testing in your office, with a schedule that is convenient for you and your staff and most of all your patients. Our registered vascular technologist and board certified Neuroradiologist guarantee to deliver the highest quality of care and professionalism to your patients and practice. PNI's goal and number one priority is to ensure the safety, caring and comfort for your patients, before, during and after their procedure.

We utilize state of the art digital Transcranial Doppler Imaging technology and pride ourselves on our ability to provide you with prompt and accurate reporting of results so you can provide your patients with the next course of action in their treatment plan. Our clinical team at PNI is committed to stay abreast with the latest advances in comprehensive Transcranial Doppler technology. With our mobile diagnostic services, physicians significantly improve their practice clinically and financially while your patients receive the best of care in the convenience of your office.

Cerebrovascular Diseases can be realistically explored and studied with the use of Transcranial Doppler. We perform a comprehensive and detailed protocol for understanding and interrogating a wide variety of neurovascular pathology:

TCD is relatively inexpensive, noninvasive, portable and fairly easy to use. It allows frequent repeated measurements and continuous monitoring. Immediate, real time detection of changes in cerebrovascular hemodynamics is possible. It can be utilized by any medical specialty to evaluate several neurovascular disorders.

In many communities (especially rural ones), there is no neurologist and/or MRI machine available for appropriate stroke workup. In those settings and in many other places a "complete" stroke workup consists of carotid Doppler and two-dimensional echocardiogram. This misses the important evaluation of intracranial vasculature. A TCD may be the inexpensive, simple mean to determine which patients must be referred to a specialized center for further evaluation. In addition, and in patients who decline intervention initially, TCD gives a tool for monitoring the identified lesions through the years and evaluate the effectiveness of medical treatment.

Finally, TCD may be the only mean possible to evaluate intracranial vessels in cases when other radiographic means are contraindicated. TCD is a "blind procedure"; its accuracy relies on the knowledge and experience of a trained technician and interpreter.