Browse the latest research summaries in the field of medical imaging for spinal cord injury patients and caregivers.
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European Radiology, 2023 • June 29, 2023
This study investigates the incidence of spinal hematoma and its relation to neurological deficit after trauma in patients with spinal ankylosis from diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH). T...
KEY FINDING: Spinal epidural hematoma (SEH) was found in 49% of post-traumatic patients with spinal ankylosis from DISH, while spinal subdural hematoma (SSH) was observed in 4%.
Medicine, 2023 • July 21, 2023
This study assessed the feasibility of using diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) to evaluate cervical spinal cord (CSC) injury in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. The researchers compared DKI metrics in...
KEY FINDING: DKI metrics showed significant differences between MS patients and healthy controls, indicating microstructural damage in the spinal cord of MS patients.
Diagnostics, 2023 • July 10, 2023
This study focuses on using MRI to evaluate bone metastases treated with palliative radiotherapy, aiming to correlate lesion volume reduction with improved symptom control. MRI is preferred due to its...
KEY FINDING: The primary objective is to assess the concordance between morphological (MRI-based) and clinical (symptom-based) methods in evaluating local control of bone metastases after radiotherapy.
Tomography, 2023 • August 23, 2023
This study evaluates how far T2 mapping can identify arthroscopically confirmed pathologies in the long biceps tendon (LBT) and quantify the T2 values in healthy and pathological tendon substance. T2 m...
KEY FINDING: The average T2 value for healthy subjects was measured at 23.3 ± 4.6 ms, while patients with tendinopathy displayed a markedly higher value, at 47.9 ± 7.8 ms.
Open Veterinary Journal, 2023 • September 30, 2023
This study investigated the MRI characteristics of atlanto-axial (AA) subluxation in dogs by comparing affected dogs with a control group. The study focused on joint cavity size, subluxation distance,...
KEY FINDING: Dogs with AA subluxation showed a higher likelihood of intramedullary hyperintensity at the compression level.
Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2023 • October 17, 2023
This study investigated the shift of brain network hubs after spinal cord injury (SCI) in mice using resting-state functional MRI (rsfMRI) and graph theory analysis. The study found that after SCI, th...
KEY FINDING: Before spinal cord injury, the primary and secondary motor cortex showed high degree centralities, indicating their role as main hubs for motor function.
Aorta, 2023 • November 10, 2023
The article reviews translational research on using collateral network near-infrared spectroscopy (cnNIRS) for spinal cord monitoring during aortic repair. Studies in animal models and clinical settin...
KEY FINDING: Lumbar cnNIRS reproducibly reflects spinal cord tissue oxygenation and perfusion in real time and appears a feasible method for clinical practice.
Clin Spine Surg, 2023 • December 1, 2023
This prospective study on 104 DCM patients, showed significant neurological improvement was found following surgery. The presence of preoperative T2 weighted signal change was associated with lower pr...
KEY FINDING: The presence of preoperative T2 weighted signal change was associated with lower preoperative mJOA scores.
Orthopaedic Surgery, 2024 • February 1, 2024
This study introduces a technique for using intraoperative ultrasound in spinal trauma surgery performed in the lateral decubitus position. A capsular bag is created to allow for acoustic coupling and...
KEY FINDING: Intraoperative ultrasound was successfully used in all patients to explore decompression of the spinal canal and assess injuries to the neural elements.
Spine, 2024 • March 1, 2024
The study developed a deep learning-based AI model for detecting osteolytic bone metastases in the thoracolumbar spine using CT scans. The AI model demonstrated comparable sensitivity to experts and i...
KEY FINDING: The AI model achieved a sensitivity of 0.78, precision of 0.68, and F1-score of 0.72 per slice in detecting osteolytic bone metastases.