The diagnosis of brain death is a clinical diagnosis that is sometimes made with the help of
cerebral perfusion scintigraphy. It is important that all physicians be knowledgeable about …

The concept of brain death has gained importance in the past few decades to prevent futile
attempts to sustain ventilation and blood circulation when the brain has lost all function and …

The concept of “brain death” was introduced to medicine in the second half of the 20th
century, when technological advancements began to allow sustaining cardiorespiratory …

The ultimate judgment regarding the propriety of any specific procedure or course of action
must be made by the physician or medical physicist in light of all the circumstances …

Objective: To determine the reliability of radionuclide cerebral blood perfusion imaging in
confirming brain death irrespective of continued heartbeat. Subjects and Methods: Twenty …

Forty years after the publication of a landmark paper by the Ad Hoc Committee of the
Harvard Medical School, the general concept of brain death has achieved widespread …

For pronouncing brain death, unlike CTP, the 2-phase CTA gives no functional information
and is limited by inadvertent delay of the second acquisition, which may give false-negative …

Brain single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is a noninvasive ancillary test
used in selected patients in the determination of brain death (BD) with reported 100 …

Technetium-99m-HMPAO CerebralPerfusion Scintigraphy:Considerations for Timely Brain
Death Declaration Page 1 bilateral decerebrate posturing and no signs of head or body …

In this issue, an excellent review is published on the imaging findings in non-neonatal
hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy [1]. The authors also go into detail on imaging “brain …