Keywords:
Neuroradiology spine, MR physics, Musculoskeletal spine, MR-Diffusion/Perfusion, MR, MR-Functional imaging, Imaging sequences
Authors:
F. Cartes-Zumelzu, S. Ingorokva, H. Kostron, G. Feuchtner, C. Kremser, C. Thomé; Innsbruck/AT
DOI:
10.1594/ecr2013/C-0877
Purpose
The aim of this prospective study was to evaluate the value of diffusion tensor (DT) imaging in intraspinal cord tumors .
Spinal cord tumors are rare lesions,
especially when located intremedullary (1).
Despites the advances made in microsurgical neurosurgery,
operations of spinal cord tumors remains challenging.
The major predictor of resectability is still the histological type of the tumor (2,
3).
Conventional MR imaging has been shown to provide earlier detection of spinal cord tumors but prediction of histological grade on the basis of conventional MR imaging is challenging and often inaccurate.
(4,
5)
Diffusion weighted imaging is a magnetic resonance technique that has seen vast application mainly in the brain amongst them in ischemia .In the past years many efforts have been undertaken to apply the technique in several spinal cord pathologies(6,7,8,9).