Methodological Aspects of Functional Transcranial Doppler Sonography and Recommendations for Simultaneous EEG Recording

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 989-996

  Rosengarten, Bernhard ^a   Deppe, Michael ^b   Kaps, Manfred ^a   Klingelhöfer, Jürgen ^c  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c University Hospital Chemnitz   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain activation; Cerebral blood flow; EEG; Neurovascular coupling; Transcranial Doppler

Indexed keywords

BASIC PRINCIPLES; BRAIN ACTIVATION; BRAIN FUNCTIONS; BRAIN IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL CONDITIONS; DOPPLER; DOPPLER TECHNIQUES; EEG RECORDING; METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS; NEURO-VASCULAR COUPLING; NEURONAL ACTIVITIES; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER SONOGRAPHY; VASCULAR RESPONSE;

BRAIN; DOPPLER EFFECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

NEUROIMAGING;

ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CIRCULATION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEUROVASCULAR COUPLING; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 84860453806     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2012.02.027     Document Type: Article

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