Browse the latest research summaries in the field of medical imaging for spinal cord injury patients and caregivers.
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Neurotrauma Reports, 2021 • January 1, 2021
This scoping review investigates the potential of MRI biomarkers to identify lower motor neuron (LMN) damage after traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI). The review highlights the clinical importance of ...
KEY FINDING: The review identified a significant gap in the literature regarding the use of MRI biomarkers to detect LMN damage in the acute phase after SCI.
International Journal of General Medicine, 2021 • December 13, 2021
This study investigated the therapeutic potential of UC-MSC transplantation for SCI, using DTI to assess microstructural changes in the spinal cord. The experimental group received UC-MSC transplantat...
KEY FINDING: Significant differences were observed in fractional anisotropy (FA) and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values before and after treatment in the experimental group (P < 0.05).
Top Spinal Cord Inj Rehabil, 2022 • January 1, 2022
This retrospective study validated previous findings using a larger sample size (N = 136) to assess the relationship between tissue bridges and sensory scores following cervical spinal cord injury. Th...
KEY FINDING: Wider ventral tissue bridges were significantly correlated with pinprick scores at discharge from inpatient rehabilitation (r = 0.31, p < 0.001, N = 136).
Journal of Neurotrauma, 2022 • October 1, 2022
This multi-center study examined white matter changes after mTBI using DTI, finding widespread higher levels of AD, MD, and RD, and lower levels of FA, at two weeks after trauma compared with matched ...
KEY FINDING: Patients with mTBI showed higher levels of axial diffusivity (AD), mean diffusivity (MD), and radial diffusivity (RD) in white matter compared to controls at both two weeks and six months post-injury.
Neural Regeneration Research, 2023 • January 1, 2023
This study used diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to examine brain structure changes in dogs after spinal cord injury (SCI). The researchers created a dog model of SCI and observed changes in DTI paramet...
KEY FINDING: Dynamic changes in DTI parameters (FA and ADC) were observed in the cerebral peduncle (CP), posterior limb of the internal capsule (PLIC), precentral gyrus (PRG), and postcentral gyrus (POG) within 12 weeks after spinal cord injury.
J. Clin. Med., 2022 • June 29, 2022
The study investigated the reproducibility and accuracy of REMS for femoral BMD estimation and the discriminative power of the REMS-derived femoral fragility score in patients with primary and disuse-...
KEY FINDING: REMS demonstrated excellent test-retest reproducibility for estimating femoral neck BMD, total femur BMD, and the femoral fragility score in both patient groups.
Life, 2022 • July 18, 2022
This prospective cohort study investigated the correlation between rectus femoris muscle thickness and echo intensity, measured by ultrasound, and functional outcomes in 40 patients with incomplete sp...
KEY FINDING: Rectus femoris muscle thickness was significantly correlated with discharge LEMS (Spearman’s rho = 0.448; p = 0.004), FIM motor subscale (Spearman’s rho = 0.595; p < 0.001), FIM walk subscale (Spearman’s rho = 0.621; p < 0.001) and WISCI II (Spearman’s rho = 0.531; p < 0.001).
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 • July 29, 2022
The study characterized structural changes in cerebellar subregions and abnormal FCs between the cerebellar subregions and the whole brain at resting-state in the CTSCI patients. In CTSCI patients, ex...
KEY FINDING: CTSCI patients showed slightly decreased GMV in Vermis_3.
Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2022 • July 8, 2022
This study used FDG PET scans to compare brain glucose metabolism in SCI patients and healthy controls, revealing areas of both increased and decreased metabolic activity. The results indicate that hy...
KEY FINDING: Increased metabolism was observed in the supplementary motor areas, comprehension centers, parts of the parietal and temporal lobes, putamen, and cerebellum in SCI patients.
NEURAL REGENERATION RESEARCH, 2023 • March 1, 2023
This study investigated the association between brain N-acetylaspartate (NAA) levels and sensory and motor dysfunction in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) with spasticity. The study found that l...
KEY FINDING: Lower NAA concentration in the precentral gyrus was significantly associated with lower ASIA light-touch scores, pinprick scores, and motor scores in patients with SCI.