Some may think COVID-19 affects just the lungs. What was found is that this new MRI technique that we created is very good at identifying changes to the brain due to COVID-19. COVID-19 changes the white matter in the brain.
Teller, N., Chad, J. A., Wong, A., Gunraj, H., Ji, X., Goubran, M., Gilboa, A., Roudaia, E., Sekuler, A., Churchill, N., Schweizer, T., Gao, F., Masellis, M., Lam, B., Heyn, C., Cheng, I., Fowler, R., Black, S. E., MacIntosh, B. J., … Chen, J. J. (2023). Feasibility of diffusion-tensor and correlated diffusion imaging for studying white-matter microstructural abnormalities: Application in COVID-19. Human Brain Mapping, 44(10), 3998–4010. DOI: 10.1002/hbm.26322