Acute White Matter Differences in the Fornix Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 224-227

  Yallampalli, Ragini ^a,d   Wilde, Elisabeth A ^a,b,c,d   Bigler, Erin D ^e,f   Mccauley, Stephen R ^a,b,d   Hanten, Gerri ^a   Troyanskaya, Maya ^a,d   Hunter, Jill V ^b,c   Chu, Zili ^b,c   Li, Xiaoqi ^a   Levin, Harvey S ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Fornix; Mild traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FORNIX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; EFFECT SIZE; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; MALE; PERFORMANCE; RECALL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TRACTOGRAPHY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VERBAL MEMORY; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN INJURIES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FORNIX, BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84876344076     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: 15526569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2010.00537.x     Document Type: Article

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