Covering the most important aspects of cerebral blood flow (CBF) from bench to bedside, this volume first defines the basic physiology of CBF: those qualities that make it unique or are shared with other organs and their clinical implications. There follows a section on CBF pathophysiology that explores many of the known and proposed mechanisms of cerebral ischemia in stroke and trauma states. The third section describes the numerous and powerful means available to measure blood flow, tissue function and overall perfusion. These areessential measures if one is to assess the effectiveness of...