Functional brain imaging in the clinical assessment of consciousness

PLoS Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Rafii, Michael S ^a   Brewer, James B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; NEUROIMAGING; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; PUBLICATION; BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 78649911106     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000548     Document Type: Article

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