MR Imaging of Spine: Cord and Disk

Room B 210-211      10:30 - 12:30                               Chairs: John A. Carrino and Micheal D. Phillips

10:30      804.    The Bilateral Effect of Unilateral Nerve Injury - 2H DQF NMR Study of Rat Sciatic Nerves

Hadassah Shinar1, Yoshiteru Seo2, Yashushi Morita3, Kazuya Ikoma3, Gil Navon1

1Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; 2Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Tochigi, Japan; 3Kyoto Prefectural University  of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
 

10:42      805.    Extensive Axonal Damage in the Spinal Cord of EAE Mice Detected with in Vivo DTI - not available

Matthew Dean Budde1, Joong Hee Kim1, Robyn S. Klein1, John H. Russell1, Anne H. Cross1, Sheng-Kwei Song1

1Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, USA
 

10:54      806.    Quantification of Evolving White Matter Injury in Mouse Spinal Cord - not available

Joong Kim1, Hsiao-Fang Liang1, Philip Bayly1, Sheng-Kwei Song1

1Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
 

11:06      807.    The Use of T1 -Weighted Imaging to Assess Intervertebral Disc Degeneration - not available

Kayvan Keshari1, Gabby Blumenkrantz1, Jane Liu1, Xiaojuan Li1, Jeffrey Lotz1, Sharmila Majumdar1

1University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
 

11:18      808.    In Vivo Quantification of Delayed Gadolinium Enhancement in the Nucleus Pulposus of Human Intervertebral Disk
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Jaakko Niinimäki1, Outi Parviainen1, Jyrki Ruohonen1, Risto O. Ojala1, Mauno Kurunlahti2, Jaro Karppinen, 13,

Osmo Tervonen1, Miika T. Nieminen1

1Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland; 2Oulu Deaconess Institute, Oulu, Finland; 3Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland
 

11:30      809.    A Feasibility Study of in Vivo Imaging of the Intervertebral Disc - not available

Gabrielle Blumenkrantz1, Xiaojuan Li1, Eric T. Han2, Jason C. Crane1, Tim C. Dunn1, David Newitt1,

Sharmila Majumdar1

1University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA; 2GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, California, USA
 

11:42      810.    Preliminary Study on Multiple Sclerosis of the Cervical Spinal Cord by Using MR Diffusion Tensor Imaging  - not available

Lin Ma1, Kuihong Zheng2, Wei Sun3, Xinggao Guo1

1PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China; 2Navy General Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China; 3GE(China)Co.Ltd-Medical System, Beijing, People's Republic of China
 

11:54      811.    Changes in Normal-Appearing Cervical Spinal Cord in Multiple Sclerosis Measured by Diffusion Tensor Imaging

Stephen Hesseltine1, Meng Law1, Marz Rad1, Yulin Ge1, Glyn Johnson1, Robert Grossman1

1NYU Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
 

12:06      812.    Proton MR Spectroscopic Imaging of the Human Cervical Spine at 3 Tesla - not available

Prachi Dubey1, Mari Smith, 1,2, David Bonekamp2, Doris M. Lin2, Peter B. Barker, 1,2

1Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; 2Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
 

12:18      813.    MR Spectroscopy in Different Regions of the Spinal Cord and in Spinal Cord Tumors
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Ulrike Dydak1, Spyros S. Kollias2, Michael Schär1, Dieter Meier1, Peter Boesiger1

1University and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; 2University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland