Contemporary imaging of mild TBI: The journey toward diffusion tensor imaging to assess neuronal damage

Neurological Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 223-232

  Christopher Fox, W ^a   Park, Min S ^a   Belverud, Shawn ^a   Klugh, Arnett ^a   Rivet, Dennis ^b   Tomlin, Jeffrey M ^a,c  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER PORTSMOUTH   (United States)

^c NATO Role III Multinational Medical Unit   (Afghanistan)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Mild traumatic brain injury; Neuroimaging; Non invasive assessment

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TRACTOGRAPHY; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ULTRASOUND;

BRAIN INJURIES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; NEURONS;

EID: 84875148834     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: 17431328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1743132813Y.0000000162     Document Type: Article

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