Color display of diffusion tensor imaging (IMAGE)
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The brain’s waste-clearing system significantly declines in function with repeated head impacts, according to a new study of cognitively impaired professional boxers and mixed martial arts fighters. Color display of diffusion tensor imaging indicating the distribution of projection fibers (z-axis: blue), association fibers (y-axis: green), and the subcortical fibers (x-axis: red). Three regions of interest are placed in the area with projection fibers (projection area), association fibers (association area), and subcortical fibers (subcortical area) to measure diffusivities of the three directions (x, y, z).
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Dhanush Amin, M.D., and RSNA.
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