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The human brain is a vastly complex organ that controls everything we do. Although many functions in the brain are still a mystery, neuroscientists have made great strides in the last 10 years in understanding how different parts of the brain function and how brain disorders affect people’s lives. The field of brain imaging has been and continues to be a major contributor to many of the most dramatic advances in neuroscience.
Historically, brain imaging has been limited to identifying a relatively few number of disorders, such as tumors, strokes and seizures. However, like any other organ in the body, the brain can be affected in many ways. Concussions and other brain injuries, exposure to toxins, infections, inflammation, allergic reactions, hormonal and immune system chemicals, as well as genetic factors are some of the causes that negatively impact healthy brain function. While many brain disorders may not be as life threatening as tumors or strokes, they can still have an enormous and often long term effect on people’s lives - and cost society billions of dollars.
In recent years, research has extended the capabilities of brain imaging to help in the diagnosis of many additional brain disorders and neuropsychiatric conditions. Advances in brain imaging have the potential to further accelerate neuroscientists’ understanding of the brain and help doctors treat an ever expanding range of brain illnesses. CereScan is positioned at the forefront in delivering proven, medical imaging techniques to help in the diagnosis of functional brain-related diseases and disorders. CereScan’s functional brain imaging centers are specifically designed to assist in identifying the underlying physiological and biological causes of brain disorders.
Using state-of-the-art functional brain imaging cameras combined with the most advanced interpretive software, the specially trained and board-certified reading physicians at CereScan can give you and your doctor new insight into how your brain works. CereScan’s comprehensive reports supply objective diagnostic information that truly advances the practice of medicine where brain injuries, neurological disorders and neuropsychiatric disorders are concerned.
But there’s much more to CereScan than just the technology. Its one thing that this technology exists. It is quite another thing to make it more readily available to the millions of people who could benefit from its use. It’s also one type of experience to schedule a trip to the hospital for a scan and quite another to have it done in a warm, welcoming atmosphere designed specifically for the people who matter most...the patients and their families.
Put this all together, and you have the CereScan difference. Superior technology, easier access….better tests results delivered faster - all in an environment that is 100% patient-focused. CereScan utilizes high resolution brain imaging cameras, such as the Siemens Symbia series gamma camera. This system, with its open design to minimize claustrophobia, is coupled with the latest available brain image processing software. Three different software applications, the most advanced available on the market today, are used at CereScan to reconstruct and interpret brain scans. The software reconstructs the images and displays the patient’s brain in a variety of internal slices and 3-dimensional views. In addition, the patient’s blood flow patterns are compared to an age-matched normative database for further evaluation – a process referred to as statistical parametric analysis. After reading a patient’s scans and formulating the findings, the patient’s clinical history and results of the structured clinical interviews (administered at CereScan) are incorporated into the final comprehensive report.
According to the Center for Disease Control, more than 1.4 million people in the U.S. suffer a traumatic brain injury each year. The majority of these cases are mild to moderate traumatic brain injury that often go undetected by CT scans or MRIs done in hospital emergency rooms. Using functional brain imaging assessing blood flow in the brain, CereScan provides a sophisticated new diagnostic tool to help people who are suffering from the effects of mild to moderate traumatic brain injuries.
Delivering the highest quality brain scans available…
Helping doctors and their patients get the important, and often overlooked information needed to reach a more accurate diagnosis so they can pursue the best treatment available…
Providing support and comfort to thousands of people suffering with brain injuries and other brain-based disorders….
THIS IS THE CERESCAN DIFFERENCE
The law firm of Holland and Hart developed a white paper discussing the use of brain functioning imaging in the courtroom. To download a FREE copy of "Brain Functioning in the Courtroom", please click the PDF link to the right to begin the white paper download process.
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