Robust detection of traumatic axonal injury in individual mild traumatic brain injury patients: Intersubject variation, change over time and bidirectional changes in anisotropy

Brain Imaging and Behavior

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 329-342

  Lipton, Michael L ^a,b   Kim, Namhee ^a   Park, Young K ^a,c   Hulkower, Miriam B ^a   Gardin, Tova M ^a,b   Shifteh, Keivan ^b   Kim, Mimi ^a   Zimmerman, Molly E ^a   Lipton, Richard B ^a   Branch, Craig A ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Image processing and analysis; Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI); MRI; Traumatic axonal injury (TAI)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; AXONAL INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SUBCORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRAUMATIC AXONAL INJURY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WHITE MATTER INJURY;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; AXONS; BRAIN INJURIES; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84863333693     PISSN: 19317557     EISSN: 19317565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11682-012-9175-2     Document Type: Article

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