Hybrid imaging in vegetative state
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2016
Journal
PET-CT and PET-MRI in Neurology: SWOT Analysis Applied to Hybrid Imaging
First Page
247
Last Page
249
URL with Digital Object Identifier
10.1007/978-3-319-31614-7_15
Abstract
Since the invention of the artificial respirator in the 1950s, the rate of patients that survive from traumatic accidents, prolonged cardiac arrest, and other brain-damaging conditions [1] has dramatically increased. This innovation has led to a wide and often undefined spectrum of clinical syndromes and disorders of consciousness (DOC) [2], including patients ‘awakening’ from the acute phase of coma but without any sign of voluntary interaction with the environment.
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