Currently there is no tool seen as a gold standard for diagnosing concussions, and imaging tests like CT - scans and MRIs are ineffective in the absence of structural damage to the brain.
Principal investigator Wen Wee Ma, MD, of Roswell Park's Phase One and Gastrointestinal Cancer Programs, explains: «Positron emission tomography — PET — is a standardtool in the clinic for imaging tissues deep inside the body.