Whiplash injury: New approaches of functional neuroimaging /

<p>In the past two decades much has been published on whiplash injury, yet both the confusion regarding the condition and the medicolegal discussion surrounding it have increased. In this scenario, a guide to recent and current international research in the field is more necessary than ever. E...

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Main Author: Otte, Andreas (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1 Introduction:
  • General aspects
  • Incidence
  • Historical aspects
  • Mechanics
  • Diagnostic procedure in whiplash injury
  • Part 2 Nuclear medicine tools:
  • Introduction
  • Positron emission tomography (PET)
  • Single-photon emission tomography (SPET)
  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
  • Part 3 Image analysis:
  • Background
  • Visual interpretation
  • Region-of-interest technique
  • Statistical parametric mapping (SPM)
  • Image fusion
  • Network analysis
  • Control group
  • Part 4 Current research data:
  • Mild traumatic brain injury
  • Whiplash injury
  • Differential diagnostic list
  • Whiplash trauma and the risk of Alzheimer´s disease
  • Part 5 Conclusion:
  • General aspects
  • Clinical aspects
  • References
  • Legends.