Systematic review endorses integration of DTI imaging in clinical assessment of “mild” traumatic brain injury
The use of diffusion tensor imaging (“DTI”) to assess mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) has been discussed in several prior posts. Also as discussed in prior posts, DTI evidence has been challenged in dozens of cases (the results almost always favor the admission of this evidence, not as diagnostic of mTBI by itself, but as a useful component of the clinical assessment of mTBI. ) DTI imaging is useful because it has been shown to be a sensitive measure of the microstructural injury caused by head injury that cannot be visualized by conventional neuroimaging and can therefore aid in the diagnosis and prognosis of mTBI.
The latest issue of the peer-reviewed publication “Journal of Neurotrauma” includes a systematic review of the peer-reviewed literature concerning the role of DTI in the evaluation of the microstructural alterations in white matter associated with mTBI. Read More