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do keep in mind , as you read this .....twas only 15 years ago ......geesh ,

my stuff was found in 88 first .....astounding now .

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TITLE: High field, thin section nuclear magnetic resonance imaging of the

cervical spine.

AUTHORS: Dee GJ; Bello JA; Hilal SK

SOURCE: Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 1986;8(5-6):283-91

CITATION IDS: PMID: 3084092 UI: 86189816

ABSTRACT: The recent development of contiguous thin section (2 mm) imaging

utilizing a high field (1.5 tesla magnetic resonance imaging) (MR) system has

remarkably improved the precision of spinal cord diagnosis. Imaging was

performed using three-dimensional data acquisition which generated twelve

contiguous T1-weighted sections. Each section is reconstructed from a true

512 X 512 data matrix. Sixty patients with cervical cord lesions were

evaluated with this technique and the results compared with conventional

cervical myelography and CT scanning. The normal MRI anatomy of the cervical

spinal cord on the thin-section technique shows the medullary gray and white

matter. A description of this anatomy will be provided. In cases of

syringohydromyelia MRA has demonstrated with accuracy the size and location

of spinal cord cavities that were not detected by metrizamide CT scanning.

Associated Arnold-Chiari malformations can be clearly delineated. Patients

with spinal cord tumors were examined with both the T1-weighted thin-section

technique and the T2-weighted multislice technique. Spinal cord cavities and

cysts associated with tumors did not as a rule fill with metrizamide.

High-field, thin-section studies outlined each of these lesions. The

differentiation between intradural and extradural masses can be difficult on

MRI and presents one of the limitations of this method in its current state

as compared with metrizamide CT scanning. A complete discussion of the MRI

findings of a number of pathological entities will be discussed.

MAIN MESH HEADINGS: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance/*diagnostic use

Spinal Cord/*pathology

Spinal Cord Diseases/*diagnosis

ADDITIONAL MESH HEADINGS: Arnold-Chiari Malformation/diagnosis

Arteriovenous Malformations/diagnosis

Hemangiosarcoma/diagnosis

Human

Multiple Sclerosis/diagnosis

Neurofibroma/diagnosis

Spinal Cord Injuries/diagnosis

Spinal Cord Neoplasms/diagnosis

Syringomyelia/diagnosis

1986/01

1986/01 00:00

PUBLICATION TYPES: JOURNAL ARTICLE

LANGUAGES: Eng

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