Assessing functional and structural connectivity in mTBI patients

摘要

There are upwards of 1.7 million people each year affected by a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), or concussion~1. Victims are left with poor diagnosis and a robust technique is required to identify presence, severity, and brain regions affected by a concussive injury. The goal of this research was to investigate individuals who have suffered an mTBI using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and resting state MRI (rsMRI). DTI is used to assess microstructural integrity whereas rsMRI is used to identify functional abnormalities through complexity analysis.