Beyond CT and MRI: What Diffusion Tensor Imaging Reveals About the Injured Brain
Standard CT and MRI scans are built to spot structural problems: bleeding, swelling, fractures, visible lesions. That makes them excellent at ruling out the most serious, immediately life-threatening injuries. It also means they’re built to miss the kind of injury that’s most common in mild traumatic brain injury–not a torn or bleeding structure, but subtle,…