The human spinal cord gray matter contains multiple nuclei and laminae, which are not usually distinguishable in MRI at conventional field strengths. The higher signal-to-noise ratio achievable at 7T provides the increased spatial resolution necessary to resolve these very small gray matter features. Using a wrap-around brainstem/cervical spinal cord RF coil at 7T and a magnetization transfer-prepared multi-echo gradient echo pulse sequence, we resolved three differentially myelinated dorsal horn gray matter structures: the dorsolateral fasciculus, substantia gelatinosa, and nucleus proprius in a single subject at 150-µm in-plane resolution.
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