Traumatic brain injury and the frontal lobes: What can we gain with diffusion tensor imaging?

Cortex

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 156-165

  Zappalà, Giuseppe ^a   Thiebaut de Schotten, Michel ^b,c   Eslinger, Paul J ^d  

^a GARIBALDI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Frontal lobe damage; Post concussive syndromes; Traumatic brain injury (TBI); White matter lesions

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE MARKER; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; NEUROIMAGING; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ATLASES AS TOPIC; AXONS; BRAIN INJURIES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84856222583     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2011.06.020     Document Type: Review

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