Jennifer Lefeuvre1,2, Qi Duan1, Jacco A de Zwart1, Peter van Gelderen1, Stéphane Lehericy2, Steven Jacobson1, Daniel S Reich1, and Govind Nair1
1NINDS, NIH, Bethesda, MD, United States, 2INSERM U1127/CNRS UMR7225, CENIR, Brain and Spine Institute, Paris, France
MRI of the thoracic spinal cord (t-spine) is
challenging especially due to motion, flow, and susceptibility artifacts. Improving
the image quality and resolution in t-spine has the potential to improve
visualization of anatomy, as well as lesions in neurodegenerative diseases such
as multiple sclerosis (MS). Towards this end, we have developed high-resolution
t-spine imaging techniques at 7T with a custom built RF transmit-receive coil
and navigator based frequency correction.
