Medical Imaging Research

KEY FINDING: Ultrasound detected muscle hypertrophy (p < 0.05) following electrical stimulation training in subjects with SCI (responsiveness), but did not detect differences in tendon thickness.

KEY FINDING: All four patients with traumatic spondyloptosis had complete spinal cord or cauda equina transection.

KEY FINDING: Unilateral cerebellar lesions are associated with bilateral microstructural changes in the middle and superior cerebellar peduncles (MCP and SCP).

KEY FINDING: Test-retest reproducibility of fractional anisotropy was high for white matter as a whole (coefficient of variation, 3.8%; intraclass correlation coefficient, 0.93).

KEY FINDING: Total spinal cord damage was significantly correlated with averaged plantarflexion torque, averaged knee extension torque, and distance walked in 6 minutes.

KEY FINDING: DTI scalars like FA, AD, RD, MD, and MO can be correlated with clinical information to reveal abnormalities associated with neurological diseases.

KEY FINDING: Neurodegeneration was observed in the dorsal and ventral horns, as well as white matter above the injury level.

KEY FINDING: Fractional anisotropy values decreased after spinal cord injury, while the apparent diffusion coefficient, mean diffusivity, and radial diffusivity initially decreased and then increased over time.

KEY FINDING: The threshold technique accurately measures thigh circumference, subcutaneous adipose tissue, whole muscle, femoral bone, bone marrow fat, knee extensor, and intramuscular fat cross-sectional areas in men with SCI.

KEY FINDING: ioMRI detected residual tumor tissues indistinguishable under the surgical microscope.