Intravoxel Incoherent Motion at 7 Tesla to quantify human spinal cord perfusion: limitations and promises.
Simon LévyStanislas RapacchiAurélien MassireThomas TroalenThorsten FeiweierMaxime GuyeVirginie CallotPublished in: Magnetic resonance in medicine (2020)
Single-subject data SNR at 7T was insufficient for reliable perfusion estimation. However, atlas-averaged IVIM maps highlighted the higher microvascular fraction of gray matter compared to white matter, providing first results of healthy human SC perfusion mapping with MRI.
Keyphrases
- contrast enhanced
- diffusion weighted
- endothelial cells
- diffusion weighted imaging
- magnetic resonance imaging
- spinal cord
- magnetic resonance
- white matter
- computed tomography
- induced pluripotent stem cells
- pluripotent stem cells
- spinal cord injury
- high resolution
- single cell
- electronic health record
- neuropathic pain
- data analysis