Abstract:Objective To evaluate the diagnostic value of multi-slice spiral CT (MSCT) angiography dynamic image post-processing in the diagnosis of atypical hemorrhagic cerebrovascular lesions. Methods The cases diagnosed with hemorrhagic cerebrovascular disease that received CT cerebral angiography (CTA) and diagnosed with no obvious hemorrhagic cerebrovascular lesions by the general images post-processing were collected from January 2008 to March 2016. The images were dynamic post-processed again via changing threshold and angles of the VR, MIP. Kappa consistency test was used to evaluate the reproducibility of the results of dynamic image postprocessing analysis. The results were compared with Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA) and surgical exploration results. Results A total of 56 patients were enrolled. 51 cases of hemorrhagic vessel lesions were found after dynamic image post-processing, including 20 aneurysms, 25 arteriovenous malformations, 4 venous malformations and 2 arterial malformations. The diagnosis results by the two physicians were basically same (Kappa value=0.778, P < 0.05). The sensitivity of CTA dynamic image diagnosis was 100% (95% CI: 92.59, 100), and the specificity was 62.5% (95% CI: 30.57, 86.32). Conclusions MSCTA dynamic image post-processing has a good repeatability for the analysis of atypical hemorrhagic cerebrovascular lesions. Compared with DSA and surgical exploration, the results of the MSCTA dynamic image post-processing have good consistency. The method has good diagnostic efficacy, which is worthy of clinical application.