Updated Imaging of Traumatic Brain Injury

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 15-41

  Kubal, Wayne S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Diffusion tensor imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN STEM INJURY; CALVARIA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL FRACTURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN STEM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ENCEPHALOCELE; HEMATOMA, EPIDURAL, CRANIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 81455132549     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: 15578275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2011.08.010     Document Type: Review

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