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Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Neuronal Function in the Spinal Cord: Spinal fMRI

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CLINICAL MEDICINE & RESEARCH
卷 3, 期 3, 页码 146-156

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MARSHFIELD CLINIC
DOI: 10.3121/cmr.3.3.146

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Animals; fMRI; Humans; Magnetic resonance imaging; Motor; functional MRI; Pain; Reflex; Sensory; Spinal cord; Spinal cord injuries

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A review of the current literature on magnetic resonance imaging of neuronal function in the spinal cord ( spinal fMRI) is presented. The unique challenges of spinal fMRI are identified as being the small cross-sectional dimensions of the spinal cord, magnetic field inhomogeneity caused by the bone and cartilage in the spine, and motion of cerebrospinal fluid, blood, adjacent tissues and organs and of the spinal cord itself. Techniques have been developed to overcome or compensate for these challenges and the result is a fMRI method which is distinct from that used for mapping function in the brain. Evidence that the current spinal fMRI method provides accurate and sensitive maps of neuronal function is also discussed. Studies presented in the literature have demonstrated areas of neuronal activity corresponding with spinal cord neuroanatomy as a result of thermal and electrical stimuli and motor tasks with the hands, arms and legs. Signal intensity changes detected in active areas have also been demonstrated to depend on the intensity of the stimuli with both thermal stimulation and a motor task, providing evidence of the correspondence between spinal fMRI results and neuronal activity in the spinal cord.

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