Neuroimaging assessment of early and late neurobiological sequelae of traumatic brain injury: Implications for CTE

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue SEP, 2015, Pages

  Sundman, Mark ^a   Doraiswamy, P Murali ^a,b   Morey, Rajendra A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE); Concussion; Neuroimaging; Positron Emission Tomography (PET); Tau; Traumatic brain injury (TBI)

Indexed keywords

2 [1 [6 [(2 [FLUORINE 18]FLUOROETHYL)(METHYL)AMINO] 2 NAPHTHYL]ETHYLIDENE]MALONITRILE; 6 (2 FLUOROETHYL) 2 (4 AMINOPHENYL)QUINOLINE; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; BENZOTHIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; CARBON 11; FLUORINE 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; T 807; T 808; TAR DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN; THK 5105; THK 5117; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BOLD SIGNAL; CHRONIC TRAUMATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; ISOTOPE LABELING; LEWY BODY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REVIEW; TAUOPATHY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

EID: 84946574537     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00334     Document Type: Review

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