Diffusion MR Imaging in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Remarkable advances have been made in the last decade in the use of diffusion MR imaging to study mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Diffusion imaging shows differences between patients with mTBI and healthy control groups in multiple different metrics using a variety of techniques, supporting the notion that there are micro structural injuries in patients with mTBI that radiologists have been insensitive to. Future areas of discovery in diffusion MR imaging and mTBI include larger longitudinal studies to better understand the evolution of the injury and unravel the biophysical meaning that the detected changes in diffusion MR imaging represent.