Abstract #1129

Fully-integrated T1, T2, T2*, white and gray matter atlases of the spinal cord

Benjamin De Leener¹, Manuel Taso^2,3, Vladimir Fonov⁴, Arnaud Le Troter^2,3, Nikola Stikov^1,5, Louis Collins⁴, Virginie Callot^2,3, and Julien Cohen-Adad^1,6

¹Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²Centre de Résonance Magnétique Biologique et Médicale (CRMBM), UMR 7339, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU), CNRS, Marseille, France, ³Centre d'Exploration Métabolique par Résonance Magnétique (CEMEREM), Hôpital de la Timone, AP-HM, Marseille, France, ⁴Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁵Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁶Functional Neuroimaging Unit, CRIUGM, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada

The spinal cord MRI community currently lacks a standard reference template covering the entire cord, therefore hindering the feasibility of large multi-center studies. Here, we propose the MNI-Poly-AMU50, the first MRI template of the entire spinal cord and brainstem, based on 50 subjects, available for multiple contrasts (T₁-, T₂- and T₂*-weighted), and integrating probabilistic atlases of the white and gray matter. These templates provide a common framework for co-registering multi-parametric data. All developments are freely available as part of the Spinal Cord Toolbox.

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