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American Journal of Neuroradiology 26:398-400, February 2005
© 2005 American Society of Neuroradiology

Technical Note
SPINE

Diffusion Tractography of the Cervical Spinal Cord by Using Parallel Imaging

Kazuhiro Tsuchiya^a, Akira Fujikawa^a and Yuriko Suzuki^b

^a Department of Radiology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
^b Philips Medical Systems, Tokyo, Japan

Address correspondence to Kazuhiro Tsuchiya, MD, Department of Radiology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, 6–20-2, Shinkawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8611, Japan

Summary: We applied a single-shot echo-planar axial diffusion tensor sequence with parallel imaging for tractography of the cervical cord. Placing a large region of interest on a reconstructed sagittal image, the cervical cord was depicted as a tract bundle showing color-encoded cephalocaudally. By setting one region of interest in the cerebral peduncle and another in the entire cord on source images, tracts on each side were visualized. This method is promising for tractography of the cervical cord.

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