CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) – $2.3 million from the Department of Defense will help researchers at UVA Health detect injuries that were once undetectable.
When a soldier survives an explosion, there are a wide range of injuries they can sustain. Years ago, researchers discovered that some of those injuries were not being caught until after the serviceman or women died.
Using medicine to make service safer is one of the goals of the research, but doing so requires a special type of MRI machine that can track water in the brain. That is where the D.O.D. grant helps…