Citation

Xydakis MS, Butman JA, Pierpaoli C. New Engl. J. Med. 2011; 365(9): 859-861.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Massachusetts Medical Society)

DOI

10.1056/NEJMc1107891#SA1

PMID

21879909

Abstract

To the Editor: Mac Donald et al. (June 2 issue)(1) executed a unique and logistically difficult study in which they used quantitative diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) metrics to evaluate blast-injured military personnel with and without a clinical diagnosis of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI).(2)-(4) Although nominally identical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners were used at the two locations, the measurements of relative anisotropy in the cingulum bundles obtained in Landstuhl, Germany, for the two cohorts (about 0.39 for the control group and about 0.37 for the TBI group [Figure 4A of the article]) differed from those noted on the . . .

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