Clinicial applications of DTI are lagging the research applications in development.
However, clinical applications are coming.
The Radiological Society of North America recently published a summary of potential application for DTI in Neurology on their website. You can access the website post HERE.
Three key areas were highlighted in this post including use of DTI for:
- Aiding Identification of Prognosis in Mild TBI
- Gender Effects on Sports-Related Head Injury
- Brain Mapping Neurosurgery
Included at the website are two You Tube Videos. Here is the video related to using DTI as a prognostic aid in TBI.
Dr. ML Lipton featured in the You Tube video has a free full-text published a study of DTI in soccer heading in the manuscript cited below. Click on the PMID to get to the manuscript.
In this manuscript the authors were able to identify change in white matter brain microstructure related to prevalence of soccer heading independent of concussion.
Image of white matter corona radiata is my screen shot from the iPad app Brain Tutor.
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Lipton ML, Kim N, Zimmerman ME, Kim M, Stewart WF, Branch CA, & Lipton RB (2013). Soccer heading is associated with white matter microstructural and cognitive abnormalities. Radiology, 268 (3), 850-7 PMID: 23757503
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