The role of diffusion tensor imaging in the diagnosis, prognosis, and assessment of recovery and treatment of spinal cord injury: a systematic review

OA Zaninovich, MJ Avila, M Kay, JL Becker… - Neurosurgical …, 2019 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is an MRI tool that provides an objective,
noninvasive, in vivo assessment of spinal cord injury (SCI). DTI is significantly better at …

Rapid in vivo detection of rat spinal cord injury with double‐diffusion‐encoded magnetic resonance spectroscopy

NP Skinner, SN Kurpad, BD Schmit… - Magnetic resonance …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Diffusion‐weighted imaging is a common experimental tool for evaluating spinal
cord injury (SCI), yet it suffers from complications that decrease its clinical effectiveness. The …

Evaluating the severity and prognosis of acute traumatic cervical spinal cord injury: a novel classification using diffusion tensor imaging and diffusion tensor …

F Zhu, Y Liu, L Zeng, Y Wang, X Kong, S Yao, K Chen… - Spine, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Study Design. Retrospective observational cohort study. Objective. We explored the
relationship between diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) parameters and prognosis in patients …

Filter‐probe diffusion imaging improves spinal cord injury outcome prediction

NP Skinner, SY Lee, SN Kurpad, BD Schmit… - Annals of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Diffusion‐weighted imaging (DWI) is a powerful tool for investigating spinal cord
injury (SCI), but has limited specificity for axonal damage, which is the most predictive …

Abnormal injury response in spontaneous mild ventriculomegaly Wistar rat brains: a pathological correlation study of diffusion tensor and magnetization transfer …

TW Tu, JD Lescher, RA Williams, N Jikaria… - Journal of …, 2017 - liebertpub.com
Spontaneous mild ventriculomegaly (MVM) was previously reported in∼ 43% of Wistar rats
in association with vascular anomalies without phenotypic manifestation. This mild traumatic …

Imaging of spontaneous ventriculomegaly and vascular malformations in Wistar rats: implications for preclinical research

TW Tu, LC Turtzo, RA Williams… - … of Neuropathology & …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Wistar rats are widely used in biomedical research and commonly serve as a model
organism in neuroscience studies. In most cases when noninvasive imaging is not used …

Phase-aligned multiple spin-echo averaging: a simple way to improve signal-to-noise ratio of in vivo mouse spinal cord diffusion tensor image

TW Tu, MD Budde, M Xie, YJ Chen, Q Wang… - Magnetic resonance …, 2014 - Elsevier
Purpose To improve signal-noise-ratio of in vivo mouse spinal cord diffusion tensor imaging
using-phase aligned multiple spin-echo technique. Material and methods In vivo mouse …

Testing pathological variation of white matter tract in adult rats after severe spinal cord injury with MRI

W Song, G Song, C Zhao, X Li, X Pei… - BioMed research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of this study was to assess the pathological variation in white matter tracts in
the adult severe thoracic contusion spinal cord injury (SCI) rat models combined with in vivo …

Longitudinal In Vivo Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging Remote from the Lesion Site in Rat Spinal Cord Injury

A Motovylyak, NP Skinner, BD Schmit… - Journal of …, 2019 - liebertpub.com
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) has demonstrated success as a biomarker of spinal cord
injury (SCI) severity as shown from numerous pre-clinical studies. However, artifacts from …