Imaging assessment of traumatic brain injury

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 92, Issue 1083, 2016, Pages 41-50

  Currie, Stuart ^a   Saleem, Nayyar ^a   Straiton, John A ^a   Macmullen Price, Jeremy ^a   Warren, Daniel J ^a   Craven, Ian J ^a  

^a LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIQUORRHEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN STEM; COMPLICATION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEUROIMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS;

BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN STEM; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEUROIMAGING; PROGNOSIS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84949939691     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: 14690756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2014-133211     Document Type: Review

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