2D phase-sensitive inversion recovery imaging to measure in vivo spinal cord gray and white matter areas in clinically feasible acquisition times

• Published in: Journal of magnetic resonance imaging Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 698 - 708
• Main Authors: Papinutto, Nico, Schlaeger, Regina, Panara, Valentina, Caverzasi, Eduardo, Ahn, Sinyeob, Johnson, Kevin J., Zhu, Alyssa H., Stern, William A., Laub, Gerhard, Hauser, Stephen L., Henry, Roland G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2015; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; anatomy; Cohort Studies; Cross-Sectional Studies; Female; gray matter; Gray Matter - pathology; Healthy Volunteers; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Middle Aged; morphometry; Nervous System Diseases - physiopathology; NMR; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Reference Values; Reproducibility of Results; Signal-To-Noise Ratio; Spinal cord; Spinal Cord - pathology; Time Factors; white matter; White Matter - pathology; Whole Body Imaging; white matter; magnetic resonance imaging; morphometry; spinal cord; anatomy; gray matter

Purpose To present and assess a procedure for measurement of spinal cord total cross‐sectional areas (TCA) and gray matter (GM) areas based on phase‐sensitive inversion recovery imaging (PSIR). In vivo assessment of spinal cord GM and white matter (WM) could become pivotal to study various neurologi...