Clinical Utility of SPECT Neuroimaging in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury: A Systematic Review

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 9; no. 3; p. e91088
• Main Authors: Raji, Cyrus A., Tarzwell, Robert, Pavel, Dan, Schneider, Howard, Uszler, Michael, Thornton, John, van Lierop, Muriel, Cohen, Phil, Amen, Daniel G., Henderson, Theodore
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 19.03.2014; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Alzheimer's disease; Alzheimers disease; Brain; Brain injuries; Brain Injuries - diagnosis; Brain Injuries - pathology; Brain Injuries - therapy; Care and treatment; Case reports; CAT scans; Child; Child, Preschool; Chronic traumatic encephalopathy; Computed tomography; Concussion; Correlation analysis; Criteria; Cross-Sectional Studies; Dementia; Diagnosis; Diagnostic systems; Emission analysis; Female; Foreign languages; Head injuries; Humans; Hyperbaric Oxygenation; Impulsivity; Literature reviews; Lobes; Localization; Longitudinal Studies; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Medical diagnosis; Medical imaging; Medicine; Neuroimaging; Neuroimaging - methods; Neurological disorders; Neurology; Nuclear medicine; Oxygen therapy; Photon emission; Post traumatic stress disorder; Reviews; Single photon emission computed tomography; Systematic review; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon - statistics & numerical data; Trauma; Traumatic brain injury; Canada; California; Vancouver British Columbia Canada; United States > US
• ISSN: 1932-6203; 1932-6203
• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091088

This systematic review evaluated the clinical utility of single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in traumatic brain injury (TBI). After defining a PICO Statement (Population, Intervention, Comparison and Outcome Statement), PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta...