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Abstract #3020

Regional Brain Volume Change Following Traumatic Brain Injury

Binquan Wang1, 2, Ping-Hong Yeh1, 2, Wei Liu1, 2, John Graner3, Hai Pan1, 2, Jamie Harper2, 3, John M. Ollinger3, Terrence R. Oakes, 23, Gerard Riedy, 23

1Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States; 2National Capital Neuroimaging Consortium, Rockville, MD, United States; 3National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE), Bethesda, MD, United States

Regional brain volume change of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) patients was investigated in this study. Freesurfer was used to segment the high resolution T1 image to obtain selected ROIs volume. And Quantitative analysis was performed based on the segmentation. Our results found that regional brain volume of TBI patient had a strong relationship with both time since injury and age. Volumes of some regions demonstrated decreases with time since injury. In addition, some regions volumes were also changed with age.

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