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A Decade of DTI in Traumatic Brain Injury: 10 Years and 100 Articles Later

M.B. Hulkower, D.B. Poliak, S.B. Rosenbaum, M.E. Zimmerman and M.L. Lipton
American Journal of Neuroradiology November 2013, 34 (11) 2064-2074; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A3395
M.B. Hulkower
cAlbert Einstein College of Medicine (M.B.H., D.B.P., S.B.R.), Bronx, New York.
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bSaul R. Korey Department of Neurology (M.E.Z.)
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    FA image (A) reveals no abnormality in a patient with TBI. Tractography (B) can be used to delineate a region of interest for analysis. In this case, the forceps major (red) appears normal, but quantitative analysis of FA within this tract showed lower FA in the TBI group compared with controls. Whole-brain voxelwise analysis (C) reveals areas of low (blue) and high (red) FA. Low FA, consistent with TAI, is present within the forceps major at the splenium of the corpus callosum, as well as elsewhere.

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    The number of publications per year reporting DTI in TBI.

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    The number of articles that studied patients at each timeframe and level of injury severity. Articles were only included if there was sufficient information to determine both the severity and the chronicity of individual patient injuries. Articles may be included multiple times if they studied subjects with multiple severities and/or multiple chronicities. A fully referenced version of this figure is available in On-line Table I.

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    Thirteen studies used a longitudinal design. Numbers represent patients from all studies imaged at 2 time points. Nine studies assessed patients at both acute and subacute time points.3,29,39,47,54,56,67,83,85 One study assessed patients at both acute and chronic time points.102 Two studies assessed patients at both subacute and chronic time points.24,93 One study (n = 47) assessed patients twice during the subacute period and, therefore, was omitted from the figure.49

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    Most common locations of abnormal FA by ROI analysisa

    LocationsFindings
    Corpus callosum, anterior/genu22b/30
    Corpus callosum, posterior/splenium21b/32
    Posterior limb of the internal capsule11/22
    Corpus callosum, body10/18
    Frontal lobe7/10
    Corona radiata6b/10
    Cingulum bundle7/8
    Centrum semiovale6/11
    Brain stem5/8
    Cerebral peduncle5/7
    • ↵a Values indicate the number of articles reporting abnormally low FA. Denominators represent the number of studies that assessed FA at these locations, including those that did not find abnormal FA.

    • ↵b Includes articles reporting abnormally high FA. A fully referenced version of this Table is available in On-line Table 2.

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    Most common locations of abnormal FA by tractographya

    LocationsFindings
    Corpus callosum, total10b/11
    Corpus callosum, anterior/genu8/8
    Corpus callosum, posterior/splenium7/8
    Cingulum bundle6/10
    Fornix5/7
    Corpus callosum, body4/6
    Fronto-occipital fasciculus4/5
    Inferior longitudinal fasciculus4/5
    Uncinate fasciculus4/5
    Hippocampus3/3
    • ↵a Values indicate the number of articles reporting abnormally low FA. Denominators represent the number of studies that assessed FA at these locations, including those that did not find abnormal FA.

    • ↵b Includes articles reporting abnormally high FA. A fully referenced version of this Table is available in On-line Table 3.

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    Most common locations of abnormal FA by whole-brain analysisa

    LocationsFindings
    Superior longitudinal fasciculus7/25
    Corpus callosum, anterior/genu7/25
    Inferior longitudinal fasciculus7/25
    Posterior limb of the internal capsule6/25
    Fronto-occipital fasciculus6/25
    Cingulum bundle5/25
    Corona radiata5/25
    Corpus callosum, overall5/25
    Corpus callosum, body5/25
    Fornix5/25
    Frontal lobe5/25
    Temporal lobe5/25
    • ↵a Values indicate the number of articles reporting low FA in these locations. Twenty-five articles used voxelwise analysis to assess FA throughout the entire brain. Because whole-brain analyses examine all brain regions, denominators are identical for all brain regions. A fully referenced version of this Table is available in On-line Table 4.

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    Most common locations of abnormal mean diffusivity by ROI analysisa

    LocationsFindings
    Corpus callosum, posterior/splenium10b/20
    Corpus callosum, anterior/genu10/16
    Frontal lobe9/10
    White matter7/7
    Thalamus4/6
    • ↵a Values indicate the number of articles reporting abnormally low MD. Denominators represent the number of studies that assessed MD at these locations, including those that did not find abnormal MD.

    • ↵b Includes articles reporting abnormally high MD. A fully referenced version of this Table is available in On-line Table 5.

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    Most common locations of abnormal mean diffusivity by tractography analysisa

    LocationsFindings
    Corpus callosum, anterior/genu4/4
    Fronto-occipital fasciculus4/5
    Inferior longitudinal fasciculus4/5
    Uncinate fasciculus4/4
    Cingulum bundle3b/7
    • ↵a Values indicate the number of articles reporting abnormally low MD. Denominators represent the number of studies that assessed MD at these locations, including those that did not find abnormal MD.

    • ↵b Includes articles reporting abnormally high MD. A fully referenced version of this Table is available in On-line Table 6.

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    Most common locations of abnormal mean diffusivity by whole-brain analysisa

    LocationsFindings
    Cingulum bundle6/13
    Corpus callosum, total5/13
    Superior longitudinal fasciculus4/13
    Posterior limb of the internal capsule4/13
    Fronto-occipital fasciculus4/13
    Frontal lobe4/13
    • ↵a Values indicate the number of articles reporting abnormally increased MD in these locations. Thirteen articles used whole-brain analysis to assess MD throughout the entire brain. Because whole-brain analyses examine all brain regions, denominators are identical for all brain regions. A fully referenced version of this Table is available in On-line Table 7.

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    Relationship of DTI metrics to cognitive outcome measuresa

    DTI MeasureCorrelationAttentionExecutive FunctionMemoryMotorPsychomotor/Processing SpeedVisuospatialIQ
    FAPositive correlation119144542
    Negative correlation6520200
    No correlation2661106
    MDPositive correlation3220010
    Negative correlation4670130
    No correlation1431200
    • Note:—IQ indicates intelligence quotient.

    • ↵a Total number of articles assessing relationships between DTI measures and cognitive outcomes. Cognitive-outcome measures have been categorized as 7 domains (top row). Articles are classified as reporting positive correlation, negative correlation, or no correlation. Positive correlation indicates a correlation coefficient greater than zero. Negative correlation indicates a correlation coefficient less than zero. No correlation includes articles that reported analyzing relationships between the DTI measures and cognitive outcomes within a domain but either reported finding no correlation (correlation coefficient equal to zero) or a correlation with a P value > .05. A fully referenced version of this Table is available in On-line Table 8.

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    Relationship of DTI metrics to general clinical assessmentsa

    DTI MeasureCorrelationGlobal Outcome MeasuresGCSPostconcussion Symptoms
    FAPositive correlation1153
    Negative correlation413
    No correlation386
    MDPositive correlation111
    Negative correlation542
    No correlation001
    • ↵a Total number of articles assessing relationships between DTI measures and global outcome measures (see “Functional Outcomes after TBI”), GCS, or postconcussive symptoms. Articles are classified as reporting positive correlation, negative correlation, or no correlation. Positive correlation indicates a correlation coefficient greater than zero. Negative correlation indicates a correlation coefficient less than zero. No correlation includes articles that reported analyzing relationships between the DTI measure and cognitive outcomes within a domain but either reported finding no correlation (correlation coefficient equal to zero) or a correlation with a P value >.05. A fully referenced version of this Table is available in On-line Table 9.

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