Depiction of the Spinal Cord by Diffusion Weighted Imaging

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Mizuuchi, Nobuo [1 ]
Maruyama, Katsuya [1 ]
Moroi, Takashi [1 ]
Takemoto, Shohei [1 ]
Sueyoshi, Toshinori [1 ]
Usagawa, Tsuyoshi [1 ]
Iriguchi, Norio [1 ]
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[1] Kumamoto Univ, Grad Sch Sci & Technol, Kumamoto 8608555, Japan
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2009 ICME INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPLEX MEDICAL ENGINEERING | 2009年
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STATE FREE PRECESSION; MR MYELOGRAPHY; ECHO;
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R318 [生物医学工程];
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0831 ;
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In this study, we made clear that we could depict spinal cord directly by using a diffusion weighted image. Conventional MR Myelography is a water emphasis image depicting CSF (cerebrospinal fluid) to a high signal. It may be said that we catch spinal cord indirectly anatomically because the spinal cord is covered in CSF. We depicted CSF to a low signal, and a useful thing was shown in the diffusion weighted image which depicted spinal cord and tract to a high signal as means to elucidate a run state of the spinal cord anatomically.
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