Browse the latest research summaries in the field of medical imaging for spinal cord injury patients and caregivers.
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PLOS ONE, 2015 • October 30, 2015
This study presents a unique longitudinal dataset of weekly rs-fMRI scans over 3.5 years to assess the reproducibility and temporal structure of rs-fMRI outcome measures. The research identifies 14 RS...
KEY FINDING: Resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) outcome measures, specifically network spatial maps, temporal signal fluctuation magnitude, and between-network connectivity (BNC), showed high inter-session reproducibility.
Korean J Radiol, 2015 • November 1, 2015
The study evaluated the diagnostic performance of DTI parameters (MD, LD, RD, FA) in patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) who had spinal cord compression but no signal changes on conven...
KEY FINDING: FA values were negatively correlated with the degree of central canal stenosis, while RD values showed a positive correlation.
Ann Rehabil Med, 2015 • October 1, 2015
This study examined core and body surface temperatures in patients with incomplete SCI to assess thermoregulatory dysfunction. The results indicated that patients with upper SCIs (T6 or above) had low...
KEY FINDING: Patients with upper SCIs had significantly lower skin temperatures at the lower abdomen, anterior thigh, and anterior tibia compared to healthy individuals and patients with lower SCIs.
Scientific Reports, 2016 • April 20, 2016
This study demonstrates remote and spatially localized morphological and microstructural changes of the spinal cord within the grey and white matter above the level of stenosis in patients with CSM. T...
KEY FINDING: Patients with CSM exhibited significant atrophy in the cervical white matter (13.9%), grey matter (7.2%), and posterior columns (16.1%) above the level of stenosis.
Spinal Cord Series and Cases, 2015 • October 8, 2015
This study investigated potential associations between chronic whiplash and incomplete spinal cord injury by comparing individuals with chronic WAD to healthy controls and those with iSCI. The researc...
KEY FINDING: Participants with chronic WAD showed reduced spinal cord motor tract integrity compared to controls.
Spinal Cord, 2017 • July 1, 2017
This study demonstrated a negative correlation between damaged cord ratios and both walking ability and plantarflexion torque output in participants with iSCI. These findings suggest that axial spinal...
KEY FINDING: Damage ratios were negatively correlated with distance walked in 6 minutes, average daily strides, and maximum plantarflexion torque.
Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, 2016 • December 7, 2016
This study introduces a novel nonlinear trimodal regression analysis methodology for quantifying muscle degeneration using radiodensitometric distributions from CT scans. The method was tested on a ra...
KEY FINDING: The study found significant qualitative differences in the shapes of HU distributions among healthy, elderly, and pathological subjects. The healthy subject had a high-amplitude muscle peak, while the elderly subject had a more pronounced fat peak.
Cureus, 2017 • February 14, 2017
This case report describes a rare presentation of traumatic brachial nerve root avulsion with pseudomeningocele formation complicated by spinal epidural hematoma formation after a motor vehicle collis...
KEY FINDING: The patient presented with right arm paralysis and was found to have multiple injuries including fractures and pneumothoraces.
J Orthop Res, 2018 • January 1, 2018
This study demonstrates the feasibility of using NIRS to detect changes in hemoglobin concentration in the human cortical bone. The study found that in able-bodied individuals, total blood content in ...
KEY FINDING: In able-bodied individuals, deoxygenated blood increased in the tibia during and after rowing exercise.
Neuroradiology, 2017 • August 1, 2017
The study aimed to improve the specificity of DTI measurements in assessing SCI by using a subject-specific injury demarcation approach. This involved using DTI tractography to define regions relative...
KEY FINDING: DTI indices obtained from the IRRI region showed the highest specificity to impairment, demonstrating their strong potential as biomarkers for the SCI severity.