Establishing the inter-rater reliability of spinal cord damage manual measurement using magnetic resonance imaging.
David P CumminsJordan R ConnorKatherine A HellerJoshua S HubertMegan J KatesKatarina R WisniewskiJeffrey C BerlinerDenise R O'DellJames M ElliottKenneth A WebberAndrew C SmithPublished in: Spinal cord series and cases (2019)
Manual MRI measures of spinal cord damage are reliable between raters. Researchers and clinicians may confidently utilize manual MRI measures to quantify cord damage. Future research to predict functional recovery following SCI and better inform clinical management is warranted.