Global white matter analysis of diffusion tensor images is predictive of injury severity in traumatic brain injury

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 446-459

  Benson, Randall R ^a,d   Meda, Shashwath A ^b   Vasudevan, Sriram ^a   Kou, Zhifeng ^a   Govindarajan, Koushik A ^c   Hanks, Robin A ^a   Millis, Scott R ^a   Makki, Malek ^a   Latif, Zahid ^a   Coplin, William ^a   Meythaler, Jay ^a   Haacke, E Mark ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF LIVING   (United States)

^c KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DAI; Diffusion tensor imaging; DTI; Fractional anisotropy; TBI

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INJURY SEVERITY; MALE; PREDICTION; SCHOOL CHILD; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 34247165793     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2006.0153     Document Type: Article

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