The Concussion Group

The Concussion Group: DTI Program

Dr. Edward Soll has worked with a team of MRI and other neuro-scientific experts to develop a national, attorney-friendly concussion program offering quantitative Diffusion Tensor Imaging (qDTI) exams. The program builds on the expertise of MRI physicists and analytical/statistical PhDs from Harvard, UCLA, the University of New Mexico and Johns Hopkins Medical Schools. Dr. Soll has developed a program for MR imaging of the white matter microstructure in the brain that evaluates patients suspected of having mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) with debilitating post-concussion syndromes. In July 2017, The Concussion Group’s program  added contributions from MINDSET, the consulting group of the Mind-Research Network at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, expanding control group analytics that allow for age and gender statistical integrity. These methods allow for investigation of memory loss and cognitive difficulties.

The program provides statistically valid data covering 48 individual regions of the brain offering vital information to neurologists, neuro-psychiatrists and neuro-psychologists, allowing them to have objective anatomic correlations for patients suffering from random onset or post-injury memory loss, cognitive, emotional and executive dysfunction. Dr. Soll’s work has been helpful in evaluating hundreds of patients experiencing difficulties associated with vehicular and industrial accidents as well as explosions, toxic exposures and athletic injuries. Through his affiliation with the Tulane Institute of Sports Medicine, Dr. Soll serves as a consultant to the NFL Players Trust. The vast majority of patients he has studied have had earlier routine MRI and CT studies with results reported as normal. qDTI testing is performed exclusively on designated MRI systems.