New Brain Imaging Technique for Traumatic Brain Injury
Philip Bayly, Ph.D., Guy Genin, Ph.D., and Eric Leuthardt, M.D., of the Washington University in St. Louis make up a research team that has devised a technique on humans that for the first time shows just what the brain does when the skull accelerates. Test subjects heads were placed in the soft netting. They were then asked to raise and lower their heads about an inch inside an MRI machine. After subjects repeated this motion several times, the MRI pieced together a complete movie of the brain’s response to these motions.
The research team developed hardware and software to analyze these movements to better understand brain injuries that occur from impact injuries. This could be a huge step in field of brain injury research.
You can read the full story in the WUSTL Record.