Abstract #4237

Mean Displacement Map of Spine and Spinal Cord Disorders Using High B-Value Q-Space Imaging; Feasibility Study.

Masaaki Hori^1,2, Utaro Motosugi¹, Fatima Zareen¹, Keiichi Ishigame¹, Hiroshi Kumagai¹, Toshiyuki Onodera³, Kazuo Yagi³, Shigeki Aoki², Tsutomu Araki¹

¹Radiology, University of Yamanashi, Chuou, Yamanashi, Japan; ²Radiology, School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan; ³Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan

Purpose of this study is to investigate the use of high b-value q-space imaging (QSI) to evaluate spine and spinal cord lesions in vivo, with the use of mean displacement (MD) maps, as feasibility study. In results, various MD values were measured in the lesions. Moreover, MD maps were not apparently well correlated with corresponding apparent diffusion coefficient maps of DWI with b-values of 1000 s/mm2. This technique has potential to provide new information in addition to conventional sequences in routine clinical study.