Diffusion tensor imaging of mild traumatic brain injury

Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 241-255

  Niogi, Sumit N ^a   Mukherjee, Pratik ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b San Francisco   (United States)

Author keywords

axonal injury; diffusion tensor imaging; magnetic resonance imaging; mild traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

AXONAL INJURY; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW; TRACTOGRAPHY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN INJURIES; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BRAIN INJURIES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77954638423     PISSN: 08859701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HTR.0b013e3181e52c2a     Document Type: Review

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