ArticleEuropean radiology2010
Magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging and tractography of the lower spinal cord: application to diastematomyelia and tethered cord.
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- Overcoming challenges of the human spinal cord tractography for routine clinical use: a review.Neuroradiology · 2020Review
- Relationship between the benefits of paraspinal mapping and diffusion tensor imaging and the increase of decompression levels determined by conventional magnetic resonance imaging in degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2019Article
- Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and Tractography of the spinal cord in pediatric population with spinal lipomas: preliminary study.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2019Article
- Recent advances in magnetic resonance neuroimaging of lumbar nerve to clinical applications: A review of clinical studies utilizing Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance neurography.Spine surgery and related research · 2017Review
- Possibility Study of Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) Algorithm Application to Spine Magnetic Resonance Imaging.PloS one · 2016Article
- Changes in lumbosacral spinal nerve roots on diffusion tensor imaging in spinal stenosis.Neural regeneration research · 2015Article
- Recurrent tethered cord: radiological investigation and management.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2013Review
- Parallel MR imaging.Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI · 2012Review
- Tractography of lumbar nerve roots: initial results.European radiology · 2011Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo investigate the feasibility of routine clinical DTI of the lower spinal cord using high-field-strength MRI and parallel imaging, and to evaluate the utility of diffusion tensor imaging and tractography as tools for study of lower cord pathology.
methodsThree patients with diastematomyelia, one patient with tethered cord, and six normal volunteers underwent MR imaging of the lower spine at 3 T. A 15-channel spine coil and parallel imaging were used with a six-direction single-shot echo-planar gradient echo technique.
resultsIn normal volunteers, tractography delineated the conus and cauda equina. Tractography software permitted assessment of fractional anisotropy of the distal cord and nerve roots. In cases of tethered cord, tractography correlated with anatomical imaging. Tractography also correlated with the anatomical pathological findings in cases of diastematomyelia.
conclusionsThe methods described enable routine DTI and tractography of the lower spinal cord at 3 T. Compared with conventional imaging, tractography offers additional information that may prove useful in the characterization and surgical planning for congenital lesions involving the lower spinal cord.
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