mTBI Technologies Reported at Annual Neuroscience Meeting
USA Today had an article on the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and reported on encouraging findings scientists have discovered using two types of brain scanning techniques to detect mild traumatic brain injury. Researchers at the University of California in San Diego combined MEG (magnetoencephalography) and DTI (diffusion tensor imaging) to detect brain injury that the traditional MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) and CT had missed. Researchers at the University of Miami used MRSI (magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging) which is a whole-brain method and is an advanced type of MRI t hat creates images from hundreds of voxels which are three-dimensional units of brain tissue. The MRSI detected widespread damage that sometimes fails to present itself in conventional brain scans. These latest technologies bode well for future victims of mild traumatic brain injury and TBI while the findings are encouraging.
