Mild Traumatic Brain Injury CSF Microdynamics from IVIM MRI, 28 Subjects

14 patients with mild traumatic brain injury and 14 healthy volunteers underwent intravoxel incoherent motion MRI to quantify cerebrospinal fluid microdynamics. The study, authored by Shinya Watanabe and published on figshare in 2026, found significantly higher f-values in the left cerebellopontine angle of TBI patients compared to controls. Exploratory trends and longitudinal changes in f-values were also observed across supratentorial and infratentorial brain regions.

Use Cases

• Classifying patients with mild traumatic brain injury based on cerebrospinal fluid f-values in the cerebellopontine angle.
• Modeling longitudinal recovery trajectories of CSF microdynamics in supratentorial versus infratentorial brain regions.
• Exploring regional correlations in CSF motion alterations described in the supratentorial and infratentorial regions of interest.

Strengths

• Prospective observational study design with a matched control group of 14 healthy volunteers.
• Longitudinal follow-up data is available for three patients, allowing analysis of change over time.
• Data is shared under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small at 58.5 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Data was gathered via a prospective observational study using a 3-Tesla MRI scanner for intravoxel incoherent motion imaging.

Time Range

The study period is not specified in the provided metadata.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-10 05:58:47; freshness should be verified.

Geography

The geographic coverage of the study population is not specified.