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Abstract #1170

Quantitative MRI of the spinal cord: reproducibility and normative values across 40 sites

Eva Alonso-Ortiz1, Charley Gros1, Alexandru Foias1, Mihael Abramovic2, Christoph Arneitz2, Nicole Atcheson3, Laura Barlow4, Robert Barry5,6,7, Markus Barth3, Marco Battiston8, Christian Buchel9, Matthew Budde10, Virginie Callot11,12, Benjamin De Leener13,14,15, Maxime Descoteaux16,17, Paulo Loureiro de Sousa18, Dostal Marek19, Julien Doyon15, Adam Dvorak20, Falk Eippert21, Karla Epperson22, Jürgen Finsterbusch9, Issei Fukunaga23, Claudia Wheeler-Kingshott8,24,25, Giancarlo Germani26, Guillaume Gilbert27, Francesco Grussu28,29, Akifumi Hagiwara23, Pierre-Gilles Henry30, Tomas Horak31, Masaaki Hori23, James Joers30, K Kamiya32, Haleh Karbasforoushan33, Ali Khatibi34,35, Joo-Won Kim36, Nawal Kinany37, Hagen Kitzler38, S Kolind39, Joe Yazhuo Kong40,41,42, Petr Kudlička31, Paul Kuntke43, Nyoman Kurniawan3, Slawomir Kusmia44, Rene Labounek45,46, Maria Marcella Laganà47, Corree Laule48, Christine Law49, Christophe Lenglet30, Tobias Leutritz21, Yaou Liu50,51, Sara Llufriu52, Sean Mackey53, Eloy Martinez52, Igor Nestrasil30,45, Nico Papinutto54, Daniel Papp55, Deborah Pareto56, Todd Parrish57, Anna Pichiecchio26,58, Alex Rovira Cañellas56, Marc Ruitenberg59, Rebecca Samson28, Giorgio Savini26, Maryam Seif60, Alan Seifert36, Alex Smith55, Z A Smith57, Elisabeth Solana52, Y Suzuki61, G Tackley44, Alexandra Tinnermann9, Jan Valosek46, Marios Yiannakas28, Kenneth Weber62, Nikolaus Weiskopf21, Richard Wise44, P O Wyss2, Junqian Xu36, and Julien Cohen-Adad1,63
1NeuroPoly Lab, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, 2Department of Radiology, Swiss Paraplegic Centre, Nottwil, Switzerland, 3Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 4Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 5Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MD, United States, 6Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States, 7Harvard–Massachusetts Institute of Technology Health Sciences & Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, 8Queen Square MS Centre, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom, 9Institute of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, 10Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States, 11CNRS, CRMBM, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France, 12APHM, Hopital Universitaire Timone, CEMEREM, Marseille, France, 13Department of Computer and Software Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, 14CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada, 15Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, 16CIMS, Centre de Recherche CHUS, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, 17Sherbrooke Connectivity Imaging Lab (SCIL), Computer Science Department,, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, 18CNRS, ICube, FMTS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, 19University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic, 20Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 21Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, 22Richard M. Lucas Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States, 23Department of Radiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, 24Department of Brain and Behavioural Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, 25Brain MRI 3T Research Centre, IRCCS Mondino Foundation, Pavia, Italy, 26Neuroradiology Unit, IRCCS Mondino Foundation, Pavia, Italy, 27MR Clinical Science, Philips Healthcare, Markham, ON, Canada, 28Queen Square MS Centre, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, Faculty of Brain Sciences, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom, 29Centre for Medical Image Computing, Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom, 30Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, 31CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic, 32University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 33Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States, 34Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, 35Centre of Precision Rehabilitation for Spinal Pain (CPR Spine), School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 36Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute, Department of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States, 37Center for Neuroprosthetics, Institute of Bioengineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, 38Department of Neuroradiology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, 39Departments of Medicine (Neurology), Physics & Astronomy, Radiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 40CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 41Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 42Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 43University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany, 44CUBRIC, Cardiff University, Walles, United Kingdom, 45Division of Clinical Behavioral Neuroscience, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, 46Departments of Neurology and Biomedical Engineering, University Hospital Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 47IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi, Milan, Italy, 48Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Physics & Astronomy, Radiology; International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 49Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, United States, 50Department of Radiology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, 51Tiantan Image Research Center, China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China, 52Center of Neuroimmunology, Laboratory of Advanced Imaging in Neuroimmunological Diseases, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Institut d'Investigacions Biomediques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) and Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 53Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States, 54Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States, 55Wellcome Centre For Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB, NDCN, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 56Neuroradiology Section, Vall Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain, 57Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States, 58Department of Brain and Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, 59School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 60Spinal Cord Injury Center Balgrist, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 61Department of Radiology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 62Systems Neuroscience and Pain Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, 63Functional Neuroimaging Unit, CRIUGM, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada

Normative quantitative MRI values are useful for establishing diagnosis in individuals with a suspected disease. Building on the recent creation of an open-access multi-center database (n=248 subjects) of spinal cord MRI, we processed those data to extract quantitative metrics that are commonly used (cross-sectional area, diffusion and magnetization transfer metrics). Inter-vendor (Siemens, Philips, GE), inter- and intra-site coefficients of variation (COV) were calculated. Overall results suggest that the spinal cord generic acquisition protocol is reproducible across sites and vendors (COVs within 2-8%). The data and processing pipeline are publicly available at https://spine-generic.readthedocs.io/.

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