TO THE EDITOR: We recently discovered that our research1 is cited in the review by Smith et al.2 (Smith LGF, Milliron E, Ho M-L, et al. Advanced neuroimaging in traumatic brain injury: an overview. Neurosurg Focus. 2019;47[6]:E17). Unfortunately, part of the citation is wrong.
The burden and location of [diffuse axonal injury (DAI)] lesions has been used as a prognostication tool.45 One experimental imaging technique in the evaluation of DAI burden post-[traumatic brain injury] is ultra–high-field (UHF) [susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI)] MRI, in contrast to the 1.5T or 3.0T MRI commonly used clinically. Work done by Moen et al. has demonstrated that UHF SWI MRI reveals an average of 41% more traumatic microbleeds caused by DAI than does 3T SWI, and these lesions appear larger on UHF SWI MRI.45
The first citing of reference 45 in the review paper is correct. However, the last sentence (marked with italic type) is not correct. We did not use UHF SWI MRI or 3T SWI in our study.1
We suggest the editor consider the possibility of making a correction.
Disclosures
The authors report no conflict of interest.
References
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Moen KG, Brezova V, Skandsen T, . Traumatic axonal injury: the prognostic value of lesion load in corpus callosum, brain stem, and thalamus in different magnetic resonance imaging sequences. J Neurotrauma. 2014;31(17):1486–1496.
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Smith LGF, Milliron E, Ho M-L, . Advanced neuroimaging in traumatic brain injury: an overview. Neurosurg Focus. 2019;47(6):E17.
