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Abstract #1172

Spinal Cord Segmentation and T2*-relaxation times of GM and WM within the Spinal Cord at 9.4T

Ole Geldschläger1, Dario Bosch1, Nikolai Avdievitch1, Klaus Scheffler1,2, and Anke Henning1,3
1High-field Magnetic Resonance, Max-Planck-Institut for biolog. Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, 2Institute for Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, 3Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States

This study presents the first investigations with algorithmic spinal cord-segmentation, as well as gray matter/white matter-segmentation within the spinal cord, at the ultrahigh field strength of 9.4T. On multi-echo gradient-echo acquisitions from three subjects, the tested algorithms perform the segmentations correctly. Based on these multi-echo data, pixel-wise T2*-relaxation time maps were calculated. By means of the segmentations, averaged T2*-times of 24.88ms +- 6.68ms for gray matter and 19.37ms +- 8.66ms for white matter, were calculated.

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