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Appendix E: Synopsis of Brain Injury Detection Methods
Pages 132-137

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... . tests; and advanced sensing methods of magnetic resonance, There are a multitutude of cognitive tests that neuropsypositron tomography, acoustic, electroencephalographic and chiatrists and psychologists use to assess and score mental impedance measurements that enable noninvasive sensing capabilities.
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From page 133...
... study, white matter injuries were not revealed by magnetic The onset of vascular spasm can be a few days after resonance DTI on veterans with mild TBI, despite their trauma, and as vessel narrowing limits blood supply symptoms of compromised verbal memory (Levin et al., to parts of the brain, vasospasm is a major cause of 2010)
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From page 134...
... An important application of PET evaluation of readily available in medical centers, not all experimentalists brain glucose uptake is to study the effects of low growth will have these instruments and the required radioisotopes hormone associated with trauma-induced hypopituitarism available, particularly for small animal studies. The spatial because brain glucose metabolism increases after growth
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From page 135...
... and impedance measurements (Klein et al., mation using the tracer 11C-PK11195 with superposition of the 1993; Olsson et al., 2006; Harting et al., 2010) have shown positron emission tomography emission on a magnetic resonance the kinetics of brain physiologic response to blunt trauma.
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From page 136...
... 2012. Detection of hemorrhagic and axonal pathology ter diffusion tensor imaging metrics in moderate traumatic brain injury in mild traumatic brain injury using advanced MRI: Implications for and correlation with neuro-cognitive function.
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... Prognostic and therapeutic cognitive impairment in high school football players without clinically- implications of transcranial Doppler sonography evaluation. Journal of diagnosed concussion.
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