Brain: Blood vessels
Product code: HC3010
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Whole Whole region / system / unpaired organ.
The arterial supply to the brain is one of the richest in the body due to the high metabolic demands of neural tissue. The extensive network of vessels required to achieve this is normally difficult to appreciate. This Cast uniquely reveals the origin, position, and capacity (luminal diameter) of the arterial supply to the brain, and its pattern of branching beyond named vessels. The course and branching of the internal carotid and vertebral arteries can be explored, alongside parts of the cortical territories of the anterior, middle, and posterior cerebral arteries.
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Polymer injected arteries
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No human tissue
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Full aftersales support
Key features include
- Arteries of the brain.
- Orientation, course and branching of the internal carotid and vertebral arteries.
- Position, course and branching of various cortical blood vessels.
- Capacity (luminal diameter) of key blood vessels.
- Cortical territories of the anterior, middle, and posterior cerebral arteries.
- Regions of vascular watershed on the cerebral cortex.
- Extensive branching of cortical arteries, down to unnamed (small) branches.
- Cerebral arterial circle (Willis).
- Density of vessel distribution within deep parts of the brain.
Possible variants or pathology (not guaranteed)
- Amount (density) of blood vessel perfusion with coloured polymer.
- Aneurysm or berry aneurysm.
- Occluded (discontinuous) smaller vessels.
- Imprint of atherosclerotic plaque within the internal carotid or vertebral arteries.
- Stenosis (reduced diameter) of the internal carotid or vertebral arteries.
- Pattern of branching of the cortical arteries.
- Visibility of deeper blood vessels due to overlying blood vessels.
