Comparison of season-long diffusivity measures in a cohort of non-concussed contact and non-contact athletes

ZC Merz, LA Flashman, JC Ford… - Journal of clinical and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… -term consequences of participation in contact sports has … 75 contact sport athletes and
79 non-contact sport athletes were … diffusion metrics between collegiate contact and non-contact

Diffusion tensor imaging in contact and non-contact university-level sport athletes

G Lefebvre, S Guay, E Chamard, G Theaud… - Journal of …, 2021 - liebertpub.com
… 24–27 and collegiate 28–30 contact sport athletes have shown … diffusivity, repetitive blows
to the head may negatively impactmeasure of cumulative head impacts in the contact sport

Association of head impact exposure with white matter macrostructure and microstructure metrics

BL Brett, KM Koch, LT Muftuler, M Budde… - Journal of …, 2021 - liebertpub.com
… mean diffusivity [MD]) among 37 active collegiate sport athletes … Within the same cohort of
young athletes, our group has … years of contact sport exposure and several clinical measures (…

Identifying relevant diffusion MRI microstructure biomarkers relating to exposure to repeated head impacts in contact sport athletes

J Chen, S Chung, T Li, E Fieremans… - The Neuroradiology …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
diffusion data in a limited study cohort. The purpose of this study is to investigate white matter
(WM) microstructure in collegiate contact sport athletes … found measures of mean diffusivity, …

Diffusion imaging of sport-related repetitive head impacts—a systematic review

IK Koerte, TLT Wiegand, EM Bonke, J Kochsiek… - Neuropsychology …, 2023 - Springer
head impacts (RHI) are commonly observed in athletes participating in contact sports such as
… More recently, additional diffusion measures have been reported such as diffusion kurtosis …

Spatial regression analysis of MR diffusion reveals subject-specific white matter changes associated with repetitive head impacts in contact sports

PD Asselin, Y Gu, K Merchant-Borna, B Abar… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
… capture the spectrum of head impact exposure in frequency … 28 athlete subjects for analysis,
and one collegiate non-athlete … BESS) tests as our clinical measurements at pre-season and …

Neuropathologic and clinical findings in young contact sport athletes exposed to repetitive head impacts

AC McKee, J Mez, B Abdolmohammadi… - JAMA …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
… were diagnosed with stage I CTE, 1 female collegiate player … In this cohort of players younger
than 30 years, 11 of 11 NFL … callosum in former NFL players on diffusion imaging scans 25 …

Altered functional and structural connectomes in female high school soccer athletes after a season of head impact exposure and the effect of a novel collar

J Dudley, W Yuan, J Diekfuss, KD Barber Foss… - Brain …, 2020 - liebertpub.com
… structural measures of brain network organization in a cohort of … following participation in
contact sports generally and female … From these data, we hypothesized that reduced diffusivity

… for modulating and preserving white matter following a season of American tackle football: a prospective longitudinal evaluation of differential head impact exposure

JA Diekfuss, W Yuan, KD Barber Foss… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
diffusivity and anisotropy metrics of white matter following one season of cumulative head
impact exposure in a large cohort … total accumulated head impact exposure, the athletes who …

Longitudinal white-matter abnormalities in sports-related concussion: A diffusion MRI study

YC Wu, J Harezlak, NMH Elsaid, Z Lin, Q Wen… - Neurology, 2020 - AAN Enterprises
… A total of 219 collegiate athletes who completed the CARE … There were 3 cohorts: 82 athletes
diagnosed with concussion… of athletes with acute and chronic exposure to contact sports. …