Hi everyone,

I was going to contact Mark directly about this but figured it might be of interest to our community. As most people are aware, standard MRIs, while useful in detecting macroscopic brain damage (e.g. bleed outs, etc.), are of limited value in detecting the microscopic damage that commonly occurs in mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBIs) (i.e. axonal [neuron] damage). Recently, however, a new MRI-based imaging technique, termed Diffuse Tensor Imaging (DTI), is capable of detecting neural damage along axonal tracts and can do this in both acute and chronic PCS cases. Unfortunately, however, DTI's application to mTBI is relatively new and, correspondingly, finding imaging specialists with the know-how to do it has been a challenge for me.

I live on the west coast of Canada. To the best of my knowledge, the only places doing DTI in the country are research-based and not using it for TBI. While there is an imaging facility close to me possessing the technology, they aren't sure why anyone would use it for mTBI (fools!! ).

So, does anyone know of imaging facilities in either Canada or the US that uses DTI for mTBI?