Keywords:
Head and neck, Paediatric, Trauma, MR, MR-Diffusion/Perfusion, MR-Spectroscopy, Statistics
Authors:
M. Ublinskiy, N. Semenova, T. Akhadov, P. E. P. Menshchikov, A. Manzhurtsev, I. Melnikov, M. Akhlebinina; Moscow/RU
DOI:
10.26044/ecr2019/C-1915
Aims and objectives
Aim of this study was to explore the dynamics of microstructure and brain metabolism parameters in children with severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) and hypoxic-ischemic brain injury (HIBI).
In this study,
we focused on three brain structures: corpus callosum (as an essential white matter structure),
thalamus (as an essential gray matter structure) and brain stem.
Corpus callosum (CC) is one of the most important structures that provides connections between brain hemispheres. CC plays an important role in performance of cognitive tasks,
concentration,
attention,
memory processes [1,2].
Thalamus (a large mass of gray matter) performs several important physiological functions.
Thalamus plays an important role in regulation of level of consciousness,
processes of sleep and wakefulness,
concentration [3,4].
It is responsible for transmitting sensory and motor information from the senses (except for information from the olfactory organs) to the corresponding areas of cerebral cortex.