title: Imaging Evaluation of Acute Traumatic Brain Injury.
abstract: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Imaging plays an important role in the evaluation, diagnosis, and triage of patients with TBI. Recent studies suggest that it also helps predict patient outcomes. TBI consists of multiple pathoanatomic entities. This article reviews the current state of TBI imaging including its indications, benefits and limitations of the modalities, imaging protocols, and imaging findings for each of these pathoanatomic entities. Also briefly surveyed are advanced imaging techniques, which include several promising areas of TBI research.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Avenue, M391, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
authors.forename: Christopher A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Mutch
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, 1001 Potrero Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA. Electronic address: jason.talbott@ucsf.edu.
authors.forename: Jason F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Talbott
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, 1001 Potrero Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA.
authors.forename: Alisa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gean
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D000070642:Brain Injuries, Traumatic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D061330:Multidetector Computed Tomography; D011379:Prognosis
keywords: CT; Imaging; MRI; TBI; Traumatic brain injury