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Abstract #2836

Non-Gaussian Diffusion in the Rat Spinal Cord In Vivo with Phase and Susceptibility Corrected Segmented EPI

Elizabeth Zakszewski 1 , Nathan Skinner 2 , Shekar Kurpad 1 , Brian Schmit 3 , and Matthew Budde 1

1 Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 2 Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 3 Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Noninvasive evaluation of the rodent spinal cord will be valuable to identify potential therapies for spinal cord injury and disease. We present improvements in multi-shot diffusion weighted EPI of the rat spinal cord for measurement of diffusion tensor and diffusion kurtosis parameters.

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