MTBI and Thalamus in New MRI

A new type of MRI scan, known as a fast mean kurtosis tensor (MKT or diffusion kurtosis imaging – DKI) is showing promise in viewing structural damage in MTBI, as well as in cancer detection. They found micro-structural changes in the thalamus and corpus callosum 14 days to three months after MTBI. MKI promises to be more sensitive than even DTI in the future. (Naess-Schmidt ES et al. 2017).