Abstract #4397

MRI of the thoracic spinal cord in multiple sclerosis at 7T

Jennifer Lefeuvre^1,2, Qi Duan¹, Jacco A de Zwart¹, Peter van Gelderen¹, Stéphane Lehericy², Steven Jacobson¹, Daniel S Reich¹, and Govind Nair¹

¹NINDS, NIH, Bethesda, MD, United States, ²INSERM U1127/CNRS UMR7225, CENIR, Brain and Spine Institute, Paris, France

MRI of the thoracic spinal cord (t-spine) is challenging especially due to motion, flow, and susceptibility artifacts. Improving the image quality and resolution in t-spine has the potential to improve visualization of anatomy, as well as lesions in neurodegenerative diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS). Towards this end, we have developed high-resolution t-spine imaging techniques at 7T with a custom built RF transmit-receive coil and navigator based frequency correction.

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