Optical Imaging of Brain Function and Metabolism

296 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

• . . . . At last the doctor will be freed from the tedious interpretation of screens and photographs. Instead, he will examine and scan through his patient directly. Wearing optical-shutter spectacles and aiming a pulsed laser torch, he will be able to peer at the beating heart, study the movement of a joint or the flexing of a muscle, press on suspect areas to see how the organs beneath respond, check that pills have been correctly swallowed or that an implant is savely in place, and so on. A patient wearing white cotton or nylon clothes that scatter but hardly absorb light, may not even have to undress . . . . •. David Jones, Nature (1990) 348:290 Optical imaging of the brain is a rapidly growing field of heterogenous techniques that has attracted considerable interest recently due to a number of theoretical advantages in comparison with other brain imaging modalities: it uses non ionizing radiation, offers high spatial and temporal resolution, and supplies new types of metabolic and functional information. From a practical standpoint it is important that bedside examinations seem feasible and that the implementations will be considerably less expensive compared with competing techniques. In October 1991, a symposium was held at the Eibsee near Garmisch, Germany to bring together the leading scientists in this new field.

• Reihe: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
• Themen: Medizin Medizinische Spezialgebiete Neurologie und klinische Neurophysiologie
• ISBN: 9781489924704
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.05.2013
• Größe: 25.4 x 17.8 cm
• Verlag: Springer US
• Herausgegeben von: Ulrich Dirnagl, K.M. Einhäupl, Arno Villringer