Transtail Artery Access in Rats: A New Technique for Repeatable Selective Angiography
Kosuke Kumagai1, Masahiro Horikawa2, Kentaro Yamada2
1Dotter Department of Interventional Radiology, Oregon Health and Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR; Department of Neurosurgery, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Japan.
Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology : JVIR
|November 11, 2019
Abstract:
Transtail artery approach successfully enables selective arterial catheterization and angiography in the rat. This technique is effective and repeatable. In addition to its utility in imaging, it may also have a wide range of applications in transcatheter therapy and experimental cerebral stroke models.
