A longitudinal evaluation of diffusion kurtosis imaging in patients with mild traumatic brain injury

Brain Injury

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 47-57

  Stokum, Jesse A ^a   Sours, Chandler ^a   Zhuo, Jiachen ^a   Kane, Robert ^b   Shanmuganathan, Kathirkamanthan ^a   Gullapalli, Rao P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ANAM; Diffusion kurtosis imaging; Longitudinal analysis; Mild traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CAPSULA INTERNA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION KURTOSIS IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REACTION TIME; THALAMUS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; YOUNG ADULT; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN INJURIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERNAL CAPSULE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THALAMUS;

EID: 84917711106     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02699052.2014.947628     Document Type: Article

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