Imaging evidence and recommendations for traumatic brain injury: advanced neuro- and neurovascular imaging techniques

Publication Date

2015

Journal Title

AJNR Am J Neuroradiol

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. 2015 by American Journal of Neuroradiology.

Volume Number

36

Issue Number

2

Pages

E1-E11

Document Type

Article

Status

Faculty

Facility

School of Medicine

Primary Department

Radiology

PMID

25424870

DOI

10.3174/ajnr.A4181

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