Attenuation of lower-thoracic, lumbar, and sacral spinal cord motion: Implications for imaging human spinal cord structure and function

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1450-1454

  Figley, C R ^a   Yau, D ^a,b   Stroman, Patrick W ^a,b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SACRAL SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD FUNCTION; THORACIC SPINAL CORD;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MOVEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SACRUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 51649131443     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A1154     Document Type: Article

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