Imaging evidence and recommendations for traumatic brain injury: advanced neuro- and neurovascular imaging techniques. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • SUMMARY: Neuroimaging plays a critical role in the evaluation of patients with traumatic brain injury, with NCCT as the first-line of imaging for patients with traumatic brain injury and MR imaging being recommended in specific settings. Advanced neuroimaging techniques, including MR imaging DTI, blood oxygen level-dependent fMRI, MR spectroscopy, perfusion imaging, PET/SPECT, and magnetoencephalography, are of particular interest in identifying further injury in patients with traumatic brain injury when conventional NCCT and MR imaging findings are normal, as well as for prognostication in patients with persistent symptoms. These advanced neuroimaging techniques are currently under investigation in an attempt to optimize them and substantiate their clinical relevance in individual patients. However, the data currently available confine their use to the research arena for group comparisons, and there remains insufficient evidence at the time of this writing to conclude that these advanced techniques can be used for routine clinical use at the individual patient level. TBI imaging is a rapidly evolving field, and a number of the recommendations presented will be updated in the future to reflect the advances in medical knowledge.

publication date

  • November 25, 2014

Research

keywords

  • Brain Injuries
  • Neuroimaging

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC7965673

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84922919443

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.3174/ajnr.A4181

PubMed ID

  • 25424870

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 36

issue

  • 2