Distribution of microstructural damage in the brains of professional boxers: A diffusion MRI study

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 537-542

  Chappell, Michael H ^a   Uluǧ, Aziz M ^b   Zhang, Lijuan ^b   Heitger, Marcus H ^c   Jordan, Barry D ^d   Zimmerman, Robert D ^b   Watts, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^d BURKE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC); Boxers; Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Fractional anisotropy (FA); Traumatic brain injury (TBI); Voxel based analysis (VBA)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BOXING; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE; CHRONICITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PARAMETRIC TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPORT INJURY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BOXING; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 33748285828     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20656     Document Type: Article

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