… Image acquisition was performed as previously described. In brief, the acquisition protocol
… in American football. Using DCE-MRI scanning, we found that football players had …

… role for microvascular injury, specifically blood–brain barrier dysfunction. Thus, our main …
rmTBI in amateur American football players. For the first time, using human brain imaging, we …

… , that blood–brain barrier (BBB) dysfunction is associated … head kinematics in American
football games. The linear … post-match) underwent a scan within 2 h of playing a full contact …

… in neuroanatomical structure via diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). … and professional American
football players suggested that … a degree of blood brain barrier dysfunction (BBBD), both in …

… immediately after football games as compared to pregame baselines in players experiencing
… using diffusion tensor imaging were correlated to astrocyte dysfunction and astrogliosis at …

… Failure in the blood brain barrier (BBB) lies at the foundation of cerebrovascular dysfunction
… Athletes playing American football and thought to have mild, sub-concussive head injuries …

… and the brain imaging outcomes, we characterized the correlations between BDNF, S100B,
… head and subsequent disruption of the blood–brain barrier, without being associated with …

… impairment visible on DTI in a cohort of American football … across membranes, permeability
imaging generally depends on … of training in 40% of football players versus only 8.3% of …

… The sub-concussive rats also presented significant BBB dysfunction in the cerebral cortex
and … Representative immunomicroscopy images are presented on the right with IgG shown in …

… An emerging technique to image BBB water exchange rate (k W ) is diffusion-weighted … )
based DW-ASL approaches for in vivo imaging suffer from low spatial resolution, limited brain …