Neuroimaging in pediatric traumatic head injury: Diagnostic considerationsand relationships to neurobehavioral outcome

Contemporary neuorimaging techniques in child traumatic brain injury are re viewed, with an emphasis on compurerized tomography (CT) and magnetic reson ance (,MR) imaging. A brief overview of MR spectroscopy (MRS), functional M R imaging (fMRI), single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), and m agnetoencephalography (MEG) is also provided because these techniques will likely constitute important neuroimaging techniques of the future. Numerous figures are provided to illustrate the multifaceted maimer in which trauma tic deficits can be imaged and the rule of neuroimaging information as it r elates to TBI outcome.