Acute mild traumatic brain injury is not associated with white matter change on diffusion tensor imaging

Brain

Volumn 137, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1876-1882

  Ilvesmäki, Tero ^a,b   Luoto, Teemu M ^a   Hakulinen, Ullamari ^a,b   Brander, Antti ^a   Ryymin, Pertti ^a   Eskola, Hannu ^a,b   Iverson, Grant L ^c,d   Öhman, Juha ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

concussion; diffusion tensor imaging; magnetic resonance imaging; statistical analysis; traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WHITE MATTER; AGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTUSION; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; GENDER; MIDDLE AGED; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL EFFUSION; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

CONCUSSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN INJURIES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 84903552130     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awu095     Document Type: Article

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