Cerebral oxygenation in health and disease

• Main Author: Niels H. Secher (auth)
• Other Authors: Phil Neil Ainslie (auth), Patrice Brassard (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Physiology; near-infrared spectroscopy; cerebral blood flow; cerebral oxygenation
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Scientists and clinicians interested in cerebrovascular physiology in humans now have numerous possibilities to monitor, invasively or non-invasively, the oxygenation status of cerebral tissue. Monitoring cerebral oxygenation has several utilities; to improve patient outcome, to better understand th...