Abstract #5405

Detection of Spinal Cord Compression Injury in the Rat using Filter-Probe Diffusion Encoding

Matthew Budde¹, Natasha Beucher¹, Seung Yi Lee², Brian Schmit³, and Shekar Kurpad¹

¹Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States, ²Neuroscience Doctoral Program, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States, ³Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, United States

A rat model of chronic spinal cord compression was evaluated with reduced field of view (rFOV) diffusion tensor imaging and filter-probe diffusion encoding. The results demonstrate the sensitivity of diffusion MRI for detecting injury.

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