Main description:

This issue of Neuroimaging Clinics of North America focuses on Imaging of Brain Concussion, and is edited by Drs. Roy Riascos and Eliana E. Bonfante-Mejia. Articles will include: Traumatic Brain Injury: definition, neurosurgery, trauma-orthopedics, neuroimaging, and psychology-psychiatry; Multimodality advanced imaging for brain concussions; Perfusion weighted images in brain concussion; PET and SPECT in brain concussion; Imaging of chronic concussion; Imaging of concussion in young athletes; Imaging on concussion in blast injury; Conventional CT and MR in brain concussion; Structural imaging: structural MRI in concussion; Susceptibility weighted imaging and MR spectroscopy in concussion; Functional imaging fMRI - BOLD and resting state techniques in mTBI; Diffusion Weighted and Diffusion Tensor Imaging in mTBI; and more!

Contents:

Neuroimaging Clinics of North America

Imaging of Brain Concussion

Foreword: Imaging of Brain Concussion

Preface: Imaging of Cerebral Concussion and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

Definition of Traumatic Brain Injury, Neurosurgery, Trauma Orthopedics, Neuroimaging, Psychology, and Psychiatry in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Conventional Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance in Brain Concussion

Multimodal Advanced Imaging for Concussion

Imaging of Concussion in Young Athletes

Perfusion Imaging in Acute Traumatic Brain Injury

PET and Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography in Brain Concussion

Imaging the Role of Myelin in Concussion

Susceptibility-Weighted Imaging and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Concussion

Functional MR Imaging: Blood Oxygen Level-Dependent and Resting State Techniques in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Diffusion MR Imaging in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Imaging of Chronic Concussion