Devon Middleton1,
Feroze Mohamed1, Nadia Barakat2, Scott Faro1,
Pallav Shah1, MJ Mulcahey2, Amer Samdani2,
Jrgen Finsterbusch3
1Radiology,
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States; 2Shriners
Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, PA, United States; 3University
Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
DTI of the pediatric spinal cord (SC) has the potential to provide useful information on white matter integrity and to serve as an important biomarker for spinal cord injury (SCI). This study examines the evaluate the efficacy of an inner-field-of-view DTI sequence for imaging of the thoracic spinal cord in pediatric subjects, both normal and with SCI. Good quality DTI images were successfully collected for six healthy subjects and two subjects with SCI and DTI indices were examined for both groups.