Radionuclide Studies in the Determination of Brain Death: Criteria, Concepts, and Controversies

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 262-273

  Zuckier, Lionel S ^a   Kolano, Johanna ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M; GLUCEPTATE TC 99M; HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M; PENTETATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M;

BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE MARKER; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CLEARANCE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REVIEW; SCINTIANGIOGRAPHY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

BRAIN; BRAIN DEATH; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS;

EID: 44249096552     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2008.03.003     Document Type: Review

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