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Alterations in neurovascular coupling as noninvasive biomarkers for acute traumatic brain injury.

Hyounguk Jang, Stanley Huang, Daniel X Hammer, Lin Wang, Harmain Rafi, Meijun Ye, Cristin G Welle, Jonathan AN Fisher

Following acute traumatic brain injury (TBI), timely transport to a hospital can significantly improve the prognosis for recovery. There is, however, a dearth of quantitative biomarkers for brain injury that can be rapidly acquired and interpreted in active, field environments in which TBIs are frequently incurred. We explored potential functional indicators for TBI that can be noninvasively obtained through portable detection modalities, namely optical and electrophysiological approaches. By combining diffuse correlation spectroscopy with colocalized electrophysiological measurements in a mouse model of TBI, we observed concomitant alterations in sensory-evoked cerebral blood flow (CBF) and electrical potentials following controlled cortical impact. Injury acutely reduced the peak amplitude of both electrophysiological and CBF responses, which mostly recovered to baseline values within 30 min, and intertrial …

Publication Date:

2017/12

Journal:

Neurophotonics

Volume:

4

Issue:

4

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