Table 1.

Imaging methods for measuring midline shift and their applications.

Method	Disease or indication	Related references
Computed tomography	Traumatic brain injury	[10–18]
	Middle cerebral artery infarction	[19–21]
	Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage	[22, 23]
	Chronic subdural hematoma	[24, 25]
	Brain abscess	[26]
	Cranioplasty	[27]
Magnetic resonance imaging	Middle cerebral artery infarction	[28]
	Cerebral venous thrombosis	[29]†
	Brain tumor	[30], [31]†
	Brain abscess	[26]
Ultrasound	Traumatic brain injury	[4, 32]
	Middle cerebral artery infarction	[4, 33, 34]
	Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage	[4, 33, 35]

Reference number followed by a dagger (†) denotes studies that do not demonstrate significant correlation to other variables.