Browse the latest research summaries in the field of medical imaging for spinal cord injury patients and caregivers.
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World Neurosurg, 2014 • December 1, 2014
Advanced spinal cord imaging has great potential to offer specific physiological details regarding cord integrity and health. Though advanced spinal cord imaging is still in early development and impl...
KEY FINDING: Conventional MRI may not consistently correlate with clinical findings post-SCI, prompting interest in microstructural and metabolic imaging.
Scientific Reports, 2021 • May 12, 2021
This study presents the first MRI atlas of the juvenile axolotl brain, comprising 82 and 64 regions of interest, segmented based on embryological origin and hemispheric division. The MRI atlas allows ...
KEY FINDING: The study successfully created an MRI atlas of the axolotl brain, delineating 82 regions of interest (ROIs) and a simplified version with 64 ROIs.
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2018 • December 5, 2018
This study assessed the reliability and reproducibility of diffusion-weighted MRI (DW-MRI) in lower limb muscles, both in healthy individuals and those with motor incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI). ...
KEY FINDING: The intra- and inter-rater reliability of the ADC measurements were high, averaging 0.89 and 0.79, respectively.
Surgical Neurology International, 2025 • January 10, 2025
This paper reports two cases of dural arteriovenous fistulas (DAVFs) of the occipital sinus (OS) that developed after head trauma. These rare vascular malformations pose diagnostic and therapeutic cha...
KEY FINDING: Trauma can be a significant factor in the development of OS DAVFs. Both cases presented involved patients with a history of head trauma prior to the development of the fistula.
Osteoporos Int., 2010 • June 1, 2010
Surveillance of femur metaphysis bone mineral density (BMD) decline after spinal cord injury (SCI) may be subject to slice placement error of 2.5%. Adaptations to anti-osteoporosis measures should exc...
KEY FINDING: BMD demonstrated a rapid decline over 2 years post-injury.
J. Imaging, 2025 • December 27, 2024
This study introduces a modified center-edge (CE) angle to improve the diagnosis of developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) in young children, as the standard CE angle is unreliable in this age group...
KEY FINDING: The modified CE angle (MCE) exhibited high sensitivity and specificity, comparable to the standard CE angle, for children under and over four years old.
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2022 • September 6, 2022
The study evaluated cartilage measurements using T2 mapping and R2* sequences in monkeys with normal and reduced knee ROM to determine which sequence is better at detecting microstructural cartilage c...
KEY FINDING: MRI-R2* sequence is superior to T2 mapping in the detection of microstructural cartilage changes in knees with limited ROM.
J. Biomed. Opt., 2018 • June 29, 2018
This feasibility study investigated the use of live imaging to visualize neuronal fiber regeneration after spinal cord injury (SCI) and poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLG) bridge implantation in mice. Th...
KEY FINDING: Live imaging of neuronal fibers in the spinal cord of Thy1-eGFP mice is feasible both before and after SCI and PLG bridge implantation.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOlecular medicine, 2018 • July 12, 2018
This study investigated the effect of ultrashortwave (USW) radiation on spinal cord injury (SCI) by examining its impact on the MK2-mediated inflammatory response. The findings suggest that USW radiat...
KEY FINDING: MK2 and TNF‑α/IL‑1β were found to be elevated in patients with SCI and in H2O2‑treated C8‑D1A cells, indicating their involvement in the inflammatory response following SCI.
Journal of Craniovertebral Junction and Spine, 2024 • January 15, 2025
The study compared radiographic outcomes and subsidence rates between hyperlordotic and standard lordotic interbody spacers in ACDF patients. Hyperlordotic spacers led to increased cervical lordosis a...
KEY FINDING: Hyperlordotic spacers resulted in a significantly higher cervical lordosis (CL) at 1-year post-surgery compared to standard lordotic spacers.