Functional Neuroimaging in Whiplash Injury

1. Introduction

2. Diagnostics

3. Current Research Data

4. Conclusion

5. Clinical Aspects

Andreas Otte, MD, is a board-certified specialist in Nuclear Medicine and Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Division of Medical Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Offenburg University, Germany. Dr. Otte received his graduate and post-graduate medical education at the University Hospitals Freiburg, Germany, and Basle, Switzerland, and at the Paul Scherrer Research Institute in Villigen, Switzerland. Thereafter he held various leading positions in clinical research, including at the University Hospital Freiburg. From 2002 to 2009 Dr. Otte was Visiting Professor of Nuclear Medicine in the Medical Faculty of the University of Ghent in Belgium. He took up his present position in 2010. Dr. Otte is the author of many peer-reviewed journal articles and the author or editor/co-editor of a number of books, including the Springer trilogy PET and SPECT in Neurology, PET and SPECT in Psychiatry, and PET and SPECT of Neurobiological Systems. Awarded a series of international scientific prizes, Dr. Otte was nominated Editor of the Board of the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine (1998-2003) and the Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine (since 2003).