Neuro Imaging Resources – New Information Available

Neuro Imaging Resources

The need for resource pages has dramatically decreased since we first wrote these pages in the 1990’s.  Now Google, Google Scholar and PubMed make finding literature and more scientific information straightforward. Thus, I have reduced the number of links here and have eliminated several categories. This is my new list of neuro imaging resources and it has changed.

I have also eliminated the links for PET Scans, SPECT Scans, EEG and MRA.  Advances in MRI are making those techniques less and less important. I have found that the new techniques in neuro imaging resources have most definitely improved.  The MRI’s of today help considerably with the diagnosis of traumatic brain injury.  Even though they have a very long way to go, the advances they have made with the MRI’s are very encouraging as far as neuro imaging resources go.

Neuro imagingresources is only one way of diagnosing brain injury. Many times there may not be any physical image or signs of trauma.  That does not necessarily mean that traumatic brain injury has not suffered.  I go into detail on this subject on my page Diagnosing Brain Injury.  You will find by reading this page that brain injury is often missed as a diagnosis.

The below links were all valid as of January of 2013.

Computed Tomographic Scan (CT Scan)

• Computerized Axial Tomography (CAT Scan/ CT Scan)
• Computerized Axial Tomography (CAT Scan)

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

• The Basics of MRI
• The Whole Brain Atlas
• Go Ask Alice!: Difference Between a CT Scan and MRI
• Ask NOAH About Mental Health: Fact Sheet: Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• UI Hospitals and Clinics Patient Education: The MRI
• The Human Brain Project at Caltech: The central theme of this project is to apply newly emerging computational techniques to in vivo optical and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of the developing brain.

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