Rate of abnormalities in quantitative MR neuroimaging of persons with chronic traumatic brain injury.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) can result in lasting brain damage that is often too subtle to detect by qualitative visual inspection on conventional MR imaging. Although a number of FDA-cleared MR neuroimaging tools have demonstrated changes associated with mTBI, they are still under-utilized in clinical practice.

Methods

We investigated a group of 65 individuals with predominantly mTBI (60 mTBI, 48 due to motor-vehicle collision, mean age 47 ± 13 years, 27 men and 38 women) with MR neuroimaging performed in a median of 37 months post-injury. We evaluated abnormalities in brain volumetry including analysis of left-right asymmetry by quantitative volumetric analysis, cerebral perfusion by pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling (PCASL), white matter microstru

SUBMITTER: Rahmani F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11225195 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature