Andreas Gottschalk1,
Axel Bornstedt2, Uwe Maurer3, Silke Steinhoff1,
Bernd Schmitz4, Volker Rasche2
1Department of Radiology, Armed Forces
Hospital, Ulm, Germany; 2Department of Internal Medicine II,
University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany; 3Department of Neurosurgery,
Armed Forces Hospital, Ulm, Germany; 4Department for Diagnostic
and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Baden
Wuerttemberg, Germany
The
application of high-resolution cardiac phase resolved MRI (CINE) to directly
visualize arachnoid adhesions for improved intervention planning in
syringomyelia was investigated. It could be shown that high-spatial
resolution (250mx500mx2mm) combined with 30 cardiac phases enabled direct
visualization and quantification of the arachnoid adhesions. The position of
the adhesions was verified during the intervention and post-interventional
MRI was performed for assessment of the structure of the arachnoid adhesion
after the microsurgical adhesiolysis procedure.