{"id":1949,"date":"2021-08-02T19:03:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T19:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/?post_type=sub-practice-areas&#038;p=1949"},"modified":"2021-08-02T19:04:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T19:04:34","slug":"neuroimaging","status":"publish","type":"sub-practice-areas","link":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/neuroimaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Neuroimaging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Neuroimaging is the process by which pictures or images of the brain are either directly or indirectly recorded onto a film and interpreted by a neuroradiologist, a radiologist who has additional specialty education and training in reviewing and interpreting these brain images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neuroimaging is classified into two broad categories:&nbsp; Structural Imaging and Functional Imaging.&nbsp; Structural imaging relates to the structures of the nervous system and the diagnosis of intracranial disease and injuries, including traumatic brain injuries.&nbsp; Functional imaging is used to diagnose metabolic diseases and lesions through visualization of the processing of information which will increase metabolism and \u201clight up\u201d on the scan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are many different types of brain imaging techniques:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>CAT Scan (CT);<\/li><li>Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI);<\/li><li>Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)<\/li><li>Positron Emission Tomography (PET);<\/li><li>Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT);<\/li><li>Magnetoencepholography (MEG);<\/li><li>Diffuse Optical Imaging (DOI);<\/li><li>Event-Related Optical Signal (EROS);<\/li><li>Cranial Ultrasound.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Each of the above techniques have been developed to obtain visual information to aid in the diagnosis of brain pathology, including TBI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to these types of imaging techniques, there are subsets of techniques used to elicit further information from the type of scan being performed.&nbsp; For instance, diffusion tensor imaging is used in conjunction with a 3T MRI scan to evaluate how water molecules flow in the brain to help demonstrate diffuse axonal injury and other white matter abnormalities.&nbsp; NeuroQuant, is an FDA approved computer software that reviews 3T MRI scans to objectively measure hippocampal atrophy in patients who suffer TBI and who may have other conditions causing brain atrophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1951,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":""},"categories":[75],"class_list":["post-1949","sub-practice-areas","type-sub-practice-areas","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traumatic-brain-injury"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sub-practice-areas\/1949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sub-practice-areas"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/sub-practice-areas"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}