[PDF] Top 20 Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Normal Cervical and Thoracic Pediatric Spinal Cord

... lower thoracic region, which potentially can be reduced with improved imaging ...the imaging voxel while balancing the in-plane resolution and the number of sec- tions needed to scan the subject ... See full document

... for imaging), first evaluated only the standard anatomic se- quences (ie, without access to the rFOV sequence) for the presence of typical spinal pathologies within the extradural, intradural extramed- ... See full document

... robust diffusion imaging of the pediatric spinal cord without the need for specialized hardware, cardiac gating, or respiratory ...the spinal cord were obtained using the ... See full document

... in diffusion characteristics throughout the spinal cord in subjects with chronic SCI com- pared with uninjured ...the spinal cord was higher at the injury site but significantly reduced ... See full document

... T2-weighted imaging. This does not match previously reported results in cervical myelomalacia (2), although the myelomalacia study focused only on cervical degenerative chronic (or slowly ... See full document

... the spinal cord cross- sectional area was smallest and in the lower thoracic regions where spinal nerves may run along the spinal ...the spinal cord 6,24 ; however, its ... See full document

... Diffusion imaging might also be useful for eval- uating analogous conditions in the spinal ...with diffusion- weighted imaging of the spinal cord, however, is much more ... See full document

... the spinal cord, which, when included in ROI, may have decreased the FA ...separate spinal cord from CSF, would have enabled us to perform the measurements faster and to reduce the problem of ... See full document

... the spinal cord at the C2–C3 vertebral level, with separate bilateral ROIs at each of these positions (Fig ...varying cord morphology, the anterior and posterior ROIs were placed in a paramidline ... See full document

... of diffusion ten- sor imaging (DTI) with subsequent tractography is ap- plicable to dogs of different breeds and size/body weight and allows the graphical depiction of canine spinal cord in a ... See full document

... hemorrhagic cord contusions but greater than the changes noted in the entire group of patients with spinal cord ...of spinal cord injury. In this study, 5 of the 6 hemorrhagic ... See full document

... the normal ADC ...the spinal cord is feasible in patients harboring spinal vascular ...and imaging interfere with the interpreta- tion of the ...the spinal canal are additional ... See full document

... the spinal cord (mFFE), and their ability to visualize nerve roots originating from the myelum ...the diffusion sequences, the lack of resolution which causes the partial volume effect appears to be ... See full document

... the pediatric spinal cord, this test–retest methodology was used to ensure accurate and reproducible quantification of diffusion changes in the spinal ...quantitative imaging ... See full document

... non- cervical IS without evidence of spinal cord pathology (mean age, ...MR imaging twice within 4 –5 weeks, and subjects with SCI had complete motor, sen- sory, and anorectal examinations ... See full document

... By demonstrating that FA is anchored to discrete clinical states, this preliminary study serves as a basis for future work to determine the amount of signal loss due to reversible versus irre- versible spinal ... See full document

... assess normal-appearing brain tissue and cervical cord changes in patients with ADEM at ...CNS normal-ap- pearing tissue in the acute phase of ADEM, when a differential diagnosis with MS is ... See full document

... To the best of my knowledge, our study firstly explored the association between ALDH1A2 and the pathogenesis of ALS through observing and analyzing the alterations of ALDH1A2 expression and distribution in the different ... See full document

... the thoracic vertebra are rare, easily misdiagnosed, and infrequently reported; therefore, it is essential to improve the awareness of clinicians with respect to the occur- rence of GCTs in thoracic ... See full document

... Specifically, at the levels of the abnormal metrizamide CTs i.e ., both above and below the level of the cord compression the signal intensity of the injured spinal cord tissue in D-F wa[r] ... See full document