title: A brief report on MRI investigation of experimental traumatic brain injury.
abstract: Traumatic brain injury is a major cause of death and disability. This is a brief report based on a symposium presentation to the 2014 Chinese Neurotrauma Association Meeting in San Francisco, USA. It covers the work from our laboratory in applying multimodal MRI to study experimental traumatic brain injury in rats with comparisons made to behavioral tests and histology. MRI protocols include structural, perfusion, manganese-enhanced, diffusion-tensor MRI, and MRI of blood-brain barrier integrity and cerebrovascular reactivity.
authors.affiliation: Research Imaging Institute, Departments of Cellular and Structure Biology and Ophthalmology, University of Texas Health Science Center, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Timothy Q
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-6403-2827
authors.initials: TQ
authors.lastname: Duong
authors.affiliation: Research Imaging Institute, Departments of Cellular and Structure Biology and Ophthalmology, University of Texas Health Science Center, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Lora T
authors.initials: LT
authors.lastname: Watts
keywords: MRI; cerebral blood flow; diffusion tensor imaging; magnetic resonance imaging; traumatic brain injury