title: PET Imaging for Traumatic Brain Injury.
abstract: Traumatic brain injury represents a substantial public health problem for which clinicians have limited treatment avenues. Traditional FDG-positron emission tomography (PET) brain imaging has provided unique insights into this disease including prognostic information. With the advent and implementation of novel tracers as well as improvement in instrumentation, molecular brain imaging using PET can further illustrate traumatic brain injury pathophysiology and point to novel treatment strategies.
authors.affiliation: Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Room 110, Donner Building, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
authors.forename: Jacob G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Dubroff
authors.affiliation: Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Room 110, Donner Building, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Electronic address: andrew.newberg@uphs.upenn.edu.
authors.forename: Andrew B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Newberg
keywords: Diffuse axonal injury; Fluorodeoxyglucose; PET; Traumatic brain injury