Speech Disorders and Language Disorders: Diagnostic Tests

Mandatory medical device diagnostics.

Optional medical device diagnostics – depending on the results of the history, physical examination, laboratory diagnostics and mandatory medical device diagnostics – for differential diagnostic clarification.

  • Encephalogram (EEG; recording of the electrical activity of the brain).
  • Doppler sonography (ultrasound examination that can dynamically visualize fluid flows (especially blood flow)) of the carotids (carotid arteries) – in cases of suspected cerebrovascular disease (group of diseases caused by changes in blood vessels in the brain)
  • Positron emission tomography (PET; nuclear medicine procedure that allows the creation of cross-sectional images of living organisms by visualizing the distribution patterns of weak radioactive substances) – for example, when cerebral circulatory disorders are suspected.
  • Single-photon emission tomography (SPECT; functional imaging method of nuclear medicine, which can be used to create cross-sectional images of living organisms based on the principle of scintigraphy).