Whiplash Injury: New Approaches of Functional Neuroimaging (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

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.