Abstract #1251

Towards Quantitation of Nerve Trauma Using SHINKEI Based MR Neurography of Brachial Plexus at 1.5T

Prashant Nair¹, Lalit Gupta², Rajagopal K.V.¹, Praveen Mathew¹, Rolla Narayana Krishna², and Indrajit Saha³

¹Radiodiagnosis and Imaging, KMCH, Manipal University, Manipal, India, ²Philips Healthcare, Bangalore, India, Bangalore, India, ³, Philips India Ltd., Gurgaon, India, Gurgaon, India

The purpose of this study was to make an image processing marker using 3D SHINKEI based MR Neurography images of brachial plexus to identify nerve conditions and establish the condition for normalcy and abnormality by extracting the contrast property from the second order gray level Co-occurrence Matrix. The images from fourteen healthy volunteers and three patients were studied. The contrast in perpendicular direction of nerve anatomy was twice as high as other contrasts among normal subjects, while in patients, there was no such difference. Our ongoing work has the potential to classify the severity of the detected nerve lesion.

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