Each year in the United States,traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) are responsible for 52,000 deaths and 1,365,000 emergency department visits. Research with new imaging modalities is providing new ...

For years, concussions were described as temporary disruptions in brain function that could not be seen on any medical test.

Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), often called a concussion, is one of the most misunderstood injuries in medicine and law. Doctors, insurers, and defense experts frequently point to “normal” CT or ...

Adding diffusion tensor imaging metrics to prognostic models can help clinicians more accurately predict outcomes for patients with mild traumatic brain injuries. Adding diffusion tensor imaging ...

Whole brain diffusion tensor tractography in an age-matched control subject and two patients with serial images at approximately two days, six weeks, and one year following severe traumatic brain ...

June 3, 2011 — In a new study of military personnel with blast-related subacute traumatic brain injury sustained during combat, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) detected abnormalities consistent with ...

A team of medical scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics has found structural differences in white matter in the human brain that can be linked to genetic variants that may be ...

What is diffusion tensor imaging? Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a relatively new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique designed to estimate the axonal organization of the brain via ...

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Offering patients with concussion a type of brain scan known as diffusion tensor imaging MRI could help identify the one in three people who will experience persistent symptoms that can be life ...