Imaging brain trauma

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 92-97

  Duckworth, Josh L ^a   Stevens, Robert D ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Traumatic brain injury; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

XENON;

BRAIN METABOLISM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77952256810     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: 15317072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCC.0b013e3283374900     Document Type: Review

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