| SC | Spinal cord |
| MRI | Magnetic resonance imaging |
| CSF | Cerebrospinal fluid |
| FA | Fractional anisotropy |
| MD | Mean diffusivity |
| AD | Axial diffusivity |
| RD | Radial diffusivity |
| DTI | Diffusion tensor imaging |
| ROI | Region of interest |
| FOV | Field of view |
| CR | Compression ratio |
| AP | Anteroposterior |
| NLM | Non-local means |
| CoV | Coefficient of variation |
| SNR | Signal-to-Noise Ratio |
| CNR | Contrast-to-Noise Ratio |
| EPI | Edge preservation index |
| CLAHE | Contrast-limited adaptive histogram equalization |
| LoG | Laplacian of Gaussian |