Optical Imaging of Brain Function and Metabolism: 333 (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 333) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 030644528X ISBN 13: 9780306445286

Publisher: Springer, 1993

Synopsis

• . . . . 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.

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Synopsis

The proceedings of an October 1991 symposium in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, augmented with a few invited contributions to flesh out the full topic of optical imaging of the brain by a wide variety of techniques. The 25 papers discuss near infrared spectroscopy, imaging function using intrinsic signals, thermal imaging, optical measurement of i

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 030644528X
• ISBN 13: 9780306445286
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 307
• Editor: Dirnagl Ulrich, Einhäupl K.M., Villringer Arno