Demographic and clinical characteristics of the study subjects
| Patient | Gender | Age at injury | Aetiology | Time to scan after injury (days) | JFK Coma Recovery Scale—Revised6 7 | Functional magnetic resonance imaging language*19 |
| 1 | F | 49 | IHI | 209 | 7 | 1 |
| 2 | M | 33 | IHI | 325 | 6 | 2 |
| 3 | F | 38 | IHI | 1518 | 7 | 1 |
| 4 | F | 47 | IHI | 509 | 7 | 1 |
| 5 | F | 41 | IHI | 280 | 8 | 1 |
| 6 | M | 58 | Assault | 176 | 7 | 3 |
| 7 | M | 21 | Assault | 175 | 6 | 3 |
| 8 | M | 64 | Fall | 198 | 9 | 3 |
| 9 | F | 37 | Fall | 681 | 5 | 1 |
| 10 | M | 20 | RTA | 578 | 9 | 1 |
| 11 | F | 36 | RTA | 105 | 9 | 3 |
| 12 | M | 66 | RTA | 435 | 5 | 1 |
↵* Level 1, response to sound only in the auditory cortex; level 2, response to speech; level 3, retrieval of semantic information.
F, female; IHI, ischaemic/hypoxic injuries; M, male; RTA, road traffic accident.