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As reported by MIT Tech Review ... Typically, damage from concussions does not show up on traditional medical imaging tests, such as CT scans or MRIs. But scientists have recently begun using a variation of MRI known as diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to detect damage to the brain's white matter--the neural wiring that connects cells--after mild traumatic ...
... In a new study, David Moore, a neurologist and deputy director for research at the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC) inWashington, D.C., and colleagues used DTI to assess troops who had been diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury following a blast, a direct impact, or an acceleration-induced injury several months prior, as well as healthy people who had never suffered a concussion. They found that those with blast-linked trauma had a more diffuse pattern of damage to the white matter, described as a "pepper-spray pattern," than those whose concussions were caused by direct impact or acceleration. The research was presented at the World Congress for Brain Mapping and Image Guided Therapy conference in Boston last month...
See MedTech-IQ video on DTI/DSI: https://medtechiq.ning.com/video/video/search?q=dti
Read on at: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/23368/?nlid=2332
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As reported by MIT Tech Review ... Typically, damage from concussions does not show up on traditional medical imaging tests, such as CT scans or MRIs. But scientists have recently begun using a variation of MRI known as diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to detect damage to the brain's white matter--the neural wiring that connects cells--after mild traumatic ...
... In a new study, David Moore, a neurologist and deputy director for research at the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC) inWashington, D.C., and colleagues used DTI to assess troops who had been diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury following a blast, a direct impact, or an acceleration-induced injury several months prior, as well as healthy people who had never suffered a concussion. They found that those with blast-linked trauma had a more diffuse pattern of damage to the white matter, described as a "pepper-spray pattern," than those whose concussions were caused by direct impact or acceleration. The research was presented at the World Congress for Brain Mapping and Image Guided Therapy conference in Boston last month...
See MedTech-IQ video on DTI/DSI: https://medtechiq.ning.com/video/video/search?q=dti
Read on at: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/23368/?nlid=2332
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