Examines metabolic imaging to detect brain injuries in veterans, suggesting new diagnostic approaches.
Seeing blast-related brain injury through metabolism Blast-related traumatic brain injury has become one of the signature health problems of modern war. The wars in Ukraine and Iran show how explosive threats are becoming more persistent, remote, and scalable through drones, missiles, artillery, and other stand-off weapons. (1) That battlefield creates an urgent medical problem. Many of the brain injuries that matter most are the ones conventional scans cannot easily see. FDG-PET may help reveal blast-related neurotrauma and executive dysfunction in service members and veterans.
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