Table 1:

Spinal pathologies included in the current study

Spinal PathologyTotal CasesPaired Wilcoxon Test
Increased Confidence with Added DWI (P value)a
Trauma (extradural)b28.0005
Neoplasm (extradural)b16.0047
Infection (all locations)b14<.0001
Disk herniation112.1573
Mass (intradural extramedullary)b4.0455
Mass (intramedullary)b4.0253
Hemorrhage (intradural extramedullary)b2.0143
Hemorrhage (intramedullary)2.3173
Collection (intradural extramedullaryb4.0003
Demyelinationb20<.0001
Cord infarctionb6<.0001
Syrinx3.0833
Cord contusionb23<.0001
Vascular malformation1.1573
No radiologic evidence of pathology48N/A

  • ↵a P values represent the paired Wilcoxon test for the presence of a change in clinical confidence for a given diagnosis on the addition of the rFOV DWI sequence.

  • ↵b Significant at the P < .05 level.