[PDF] Top 20 Acute Effects of Alcohol on the Human Brain: Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study

... coil. Imaging sequences of the brain included spin- echo T1WI, fast spin-echo T2WI, and ...MR imaging param- eters were as follows: ...before alcohol so that each subject could serve as his or ... See full document

... underestimate the fiber tracts. DTI is a powerful anatomic imaging method that can demonstrate the gross fiber archi- tecture; however, it is difficult to reflect all fibers. Second, regions of fiber complexity ... See full document

... .01). Diffusion tensor MRI was performed in all 20 infants at their expected due date, ie, ...The study was approved by the institutional Human Subjects Research ... See full document

... to alcohol-related brain damage than other cerebral ...that alcohol-induced microstructural changes in these sensitive brain regions, which are associated with the function of these regions, ... See full document

... present study revealed significant alteration in DTI met- rics in a group of patients with mTBI in several brain regions, and these changes were highly correlated with PCS severity and emotional ...MR ... See full document

... no acute vision loss due to retinal dis- ease, alternative eye disease, or nervous sys- tem disease; 6) no treatment with any drugs before resting-state functional MRI scanning; 7) no obvious abnormality in the ... See full document

... MR imaging of the brain has been proposed as a noninvasive technique that pro- vides microstructural and physiological informa- tion regarding brain tissue in vivo by measuring the diffusion ... See full document

... mechanical brain trauma (n ⫽ 4), with all subjects show- ing signs of a direct blunt force impact and intracranial hemorrhage and varying additional findings, such as skull fractures, cerebral con- tusions, and ... See full document

... Fiber Tracking. Fiber tracking results representative of a healthy adult obtained using the optimized trigger timing de- tailed above are shown in Fig 5. When the ROI contains the entire cross-section of the spinal cord ... See full document

... water diffusion parallels white matter fibers (fast pool), whereas b values higher than that range measure mostly water diffu- sion perpendicular to the fibers (slow pool) (29, ...Because acute HIV ... See full document

... the acute-to-subacute stages of TBI can be understood by considering how TAI affects the ratio of intracellular to extracellular water ...that acute TAI is a dynamic process with variable effects on ... See full document

... We selected 6 different ROIs, primarily encompassing white matter structures with considerably varying anisotropy. These ROIs, which are commonly used in many clinical DTI studies, were also well visible and ... See full document

... that diffusion tensor imaging may identify changes in brain tissue status during asymptomatic periods; region-specific anisotropy dis- tinguished patients from control participants in a ... See full document

... an Acute Concussion Evaluation were given in our emergency ...DTI study was performed that an imaging study yielded a positive ...The study could have benefited from fol- low-up ... See full document

... of acute injury sustained and ii) the length of the ...traumatic brain injury (TBI), the VS is declared permanent after 12 ...non-traumatic brain injuries (anoxic or hypoxic), the VS is declared ... See full document

... this study, we have shown that the measured FA in gray and white matter is independent of the number of b values (Table ...The effects of these find- ings on imaging efficiency are ... See full document

... Costs were categorized as direct or indirect [24]-[27]. Direct costs were those directly associated with the per- formance of the examination and included fixed and variable costs, according to the system of ... See full document

... current study to relate language impairments with imaging findings obtained from a group of children and adolescents with acquired uni­ lateral basal ganglia ...a study performed in collaboration ... See full document

... a brain structure network based on the population and cannot establish individual brain structure network for a single ...subject. Brain network research is based on large scale which is the ... See full document

... This study has 3 major ...nix, brain stem, and cerebellum are markers of more severe TBI, because these sites were infrequently involved in our pa- tients with mild ...whole brain N-acetylaspartate ... See full document