Introduction
Methods
Participants
- Cases from multi-site study of social outcomes in children after TBI
- Social Outcome of Brain Injury in Kids (SOBIK)
- The kids are school aged and matched to orthopedic injured (OI) controls
- Both groups were injured and hospitalized
- No child with OI experienced loss of consciousness or had any known head injury
MRI Acquisition
- GE Signa Excite scanner
- 1.5T
- 8-channel head coil
- T1-weighted images
- 3D magnetization-prepared rapid gradient echo pulse sequence
- 166 contiguous sagittal slices
- TR = 8.9 ms
- TE = 3.8 ms
- in-plane resolution = 0.47 x 0.47 mm
- slice thickness = 1.2 mm
- flip angle = 8ยบ
- fov = 192 mm
- acquisition matrix = 512 x 512 mm
MRI Preprocessing