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Published in final edited form as: Neuroimage. 2017 Jul 3;168:437–451. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.07.003

Table 1.

Publications on spinal cord MRI at 7 Tesla

Topic(s) Date
online† 		Cohort(s) Title (abbrev.) First and last
authors		 Source 7T
vendor		 Spine
region		 Signal
detection		 Note(s) Reference
Anatomical imaging 05/05/08 4 healthy volunteers Preliminary experience with whole body MRI @ 7T Maderwald S, …, Ladd ME Proc Int Soc Magn Reson Med Siemens Thoracic 34-cm inner-diameter circularly-polarized coil Conference abstract; not exclusively imaging spine Maderwald et al., 2008
Coil design 05/05/08 n/a (phantom) An 8-channel non-overlapped spinal cord array coil… Xie Z, Zhang X Proc Int Soc Magn Reson Med GE n/a (phantom) 8-channel non-overlapping coil array Conference abstract; only scanned phantom Xie & Zhang, 2008
Coil design/Anatomical imaging 05/21/07 // 12/18/08 Healthy volunteer(s) Whole-body imaging at 7T: preliminary results Vaughan JT, …, Ugurbil K Magn Reson Med Magnex Thoracolumbar 16-channel transceive coil Not exclusively imaging spine Vaughan et al., 2009
Anatomical imaging 04/20/09 3 healthy volunteers High-resolution in vivo MR imaging of the human sp… Bae KT, …, Park S-H Proc Int Soc Magn Reson Med Siemens Cervical butterfly-shaped coil and smaller inner coil to generate quadrature field Conference abstract Bae et al., 2009
Coil design 04/20/09 // 08/25/09 10 healthy volunteers 7T human spine imaging arrays with adjustable indu… Wu B, …, Zhang X IEEE Trans Biomed Eng GE Thoracic linear array of microstrip transmission line transceive coils Wu et al., 2010
Coil design/Anatomical imaging 04/20/09 // 10/20/09 1 healthy volunteer and 2 patients with scoliosis An eight-channel phased array RF coil for spine MR… Kraff O, …, Quick HH Invest Radiol Siemens Cervico-thoracolumbo-sacral 8-element transceive array Kraff et al., 2009
Coil design 05/03/10 n/a (phantom) Optimizing 7T spine array design through offsettin… Duan Q, …, Wiggins GC Proc Int Soc Magn Reson Med Siemens n/a (phantom) five coil designs with one, two, or three coils Conference abstract; only scanned phantom Duan et al., 2010
Coil design/Anatomical imaging 05/09/11 // 12/04/10 10 healthy volunteers A radiofrequency coil configuration for imaging th… Vossen M, …, Webb AG J Magn Reson Philips Cervico thoracolumbo-sacral quadrature transmit and 8-channel receive Vossen et al., 2011
Coil design 05/09/11 1 healthy volunteer Investigation of 7 Tesla spine MRI with a 5-channe… Kraff O, …, Bitz AK Proc Int Soc Magn Reson Med Siemens Cervical two transceive coils: 5-channel stripline array and 8-channel loop array Kraff et al., 2011
Anatomical imaging 05/03/10 // 05/24/11 5 healthy volunteers and 1 patient with spina bifida MRI of the lumbar spine at 7 Tesla in healthy volu… Grams AE, …, Gizewski ER Skeletal Radiol Siemens Thoracolumbar 8-channel phased array transceive Grams et al., 2012
Coil design/Anatomical imaging 05/03/10 // 12/20/11 10 healthy volunteers High-resolution human cervical spinal cord imaging… Sigmund EE, …, Helpern JA NMR Biomed Siemens Cervical 4-channel transceive (Rapid Biomedical) Sigmund et al., 2012
Quantitative magnetization transfer 05/07/12 4 healthy volunteers Quantitative magnetization transfer imaging of hum… Dortch RD, …, Smith SA Proc Int Soc Magn Reson Med Philips Cervical quadrature transmit and 16-channel receive (Nova Medical) Conference abstract Dortch et al., 2012
Algorithm validation-image recon. 05/07/12 // 07/20/12 23 healthy volunteers Automated algorithm for reconstruction of the comp… Dzyubachyk O, …, van der Geest RJ Magn Reson Med Philips Cervico-thoracolumbo-sacral 10-element linear array Dzyubachyk et al., 2013
Coil design/Anatomical imaging 05/03/10 // 09/28/12 Healthy volunteers Coaxial waveguide for travelling wave MRI at ultra… Andreychenko A, …, van den Berg CAT Magn Reson Med Philips Lumbar Transmit antenna with coaxial waveguide Not exclusively imaging spine Andreychenko et al., 2013
Anatomical imaging 04/22/13 // 11/13/12 1 healthy volunteer and 1 patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 7-T MRI of the spinal cord can detect lateral cort… Cohen-Adad J, …, Atassi N Muscle Nerve Siemens Cervical 4-channel transmit and 19-channel receive Case study Cohen-Adad et al., 2013
Anatomical imaging 04/22/13 // 11/27/12 1 patient with spinal cord injury 7T MRI of spinal cord injury Cohen-Adad J, …, Oaklander AL Neurology Siemens Cervical 4-channel transmit and 19-channel receive Case study Cohen-Adad et al., 2012
Chemical exchange saturation transfer 05/07/12 // 04/09/13 7 healthy volunteers Imaging of glutamate in the spinal cord using GluC… Kogan F, …, Reddy R Neuroimage Siemens Cervical 8-channel head coil Kogan et al., 2013
Coil design/Anatomical imaging 05/07/12 // 08/20/13 2 healthy volunteers Nineteen-channel receive array and four-channel tr… Zhao W, …, Wald LL Magn Reson Med Siemens Cervical 4-channel transmit and 19-channel receive Zhao et al., 2014
Coil design 04/22/13 // 04/18/14 n/a (In silico) SAR reduction in 7T C-spine imaging using a “dark … Eryaman Y, …, Wald LL Magn Reson Med n/a (In silico) n/a (In silico) n/a (simulations of 4-channel loop array with/without “dark” dipole elements) Simulations Eryaman et al., 2015
Coil design 05/12/14 4 healthy volunteers En route to clinical ultrahigh field musculoskelet… Graessl A, …, Niendorf T Proc Int Soc Magn Reson Med Siemens Cervico-thoracolumbar 16-channel transceive using 4 planar modules Conference abstract; not exclusively imaging spine Graessl et al., 2014
B0 field mapping 05/12/14 1 healthy volunteer B0 fluctuations within the human spinal cord durin… Pennell DR, …, Smith SA Proc Int Soc Magn Reson Med Philips Cervical quadrature transmit and 16-channel receive (Nova Medical) Conference abstract Pennell et al., 2014
Functional MRI 04/22/13 // 08/05/14 22 healthy volunteers Resting state functional connectivity in the human… Barry RL, …, Gore JC Elife Philips Cervical quadrature transmit and 16-channel receive (Nova Medical) Barry et al., 2014
Coil design/Anatomical imaging 06/01/15 Healthy volunteer(s) A four channel transmit receive “loophole” array fo… Lakshmanan K, …, Wiggins GC Proc Int Soc Magn Reson Med Siemens Lumbar 4-channel “loophole” transceive array Conference abstract Lakshmanan et al., 2015
Post-mortem diffusion imaging 06/01/15 Ex vivo: 2 patients with multiple sclerosis and 1 patient with motor neuron disease Whole post-mortem spinal cord imaging with diffusi… Foxley S, …, Miller K Proc Int Soc Magn Reson Med Siemens Cervico-thoracolumbo-sacral 24-channel coil (Quality Electrodynamics) and 16-channel coil (Rapid Biomedical) Conference abstract Foxley et al., 2015
Algorithm validation-image segmentation 06/01/15 18 healthy volunteers and 20 patients with multiple sclerosis Measuring cross sectional area of the spinal cord … Conrad BN, …, Smith SA Proc Int Soc Magn Reson Med Philips Cervical quadrature transmit and 16-channel receive (Nova Medical) Conference abstract Conrad et al., 2015
Coil design/Anatomical imaging 05/12/14 // 07/20/15 2 healthy volunteers A 7T spine array based on electric dipole transmit… Duan Q, …, Merkle H Magn Reson Med Siemens Thoracic Transmit: two electric dipole antennae; Receive: 8 loop coils Duan et al., 2015
Anatomical imaging 06/01/15 // 07/24/15 13 healthy volunteers and 15 patients with multiple sclerosis Magnetic resonance imaging of the cervical spinal … Dula AN, …, Smith SA Mult Scler Philips Cervical quadrature transmit and 16-channel receive (Nova Medical) Dula et al., 2016a
Coil design/Anatomical imaging 10/01/15 Healthy volunteer(s) Flexible dipoles for multi-transmit head-neck MRI … Ali Haghnejad SA, …, Klomp DW Eur Soc Magn Reson Med Biol Philips Head + Cervical Transmit: eight flexible dipole antennae; Receive: 32-channel array Conference abstract Ali Haghnejad et al., 2015
Functional MRI 06/01/15 // 02/26/16 23 healthy volunteers Reproducibility of resting state spinal cord netwo… Barry RL, …, Gore JC Neuroimage Philips Cervical quadrature transmit and 16-channel receive (Nova Medical) Barry et al., 2016
B0 field mapping 05/09/16 2 healthy volunteers Breathing-induced B0 field fluctuations in the cer… Vannesjo SJ, …, Tracey I Proc Int Soc Magn Reson Med Siemens Cervical volume transmit and 16-channel receive (Quality Electrodynamics) Conference abstract Vannesjo et al., 2016
Coil design 05/09/16 1 healthy volunteer A cervical spine array coil with volume transmitte… Zheng T, …, Fujita H Proc Int Soc Magn Reson Med Siemens Cervical volume transmit and 16-channel receive (Quality Electrodynamics) Conference abstract Zheng et al., 2016
Coil design 05/09/16 Healthy volunteer(s) A 6 channel transmit-receive coil array for 7T cer… Yu Z, …, Wiggins G Proc Int Soc Magn Reson Med Siemens Cervical 6-channel transceive Conference abstract Yu et al., 2016
Coil design 05/09/16 n/a (phantom) Segmented dipole: a remotely reconfigurable near-f… Duan Q, …, Merkle H Proc Int Soc Magn Reson Med Siemens n/a (phantom) segmented dipole antenna Conference abstract Duan et al., 2016
Functional MRI 05/09/16 1 healthy volunteer DANTE-EPI for CSF suppression in cervical spinal c… Seifert AC, …, Xu J Proc Int Soc Magn Reson Med Siemens Cervical 4-channel transmit and 22-channel receive Conference abstract Seifert et al., 2016
Anatomical imaging 05/09/16 1 healthy volunteer and 2 patients with multiple sclerosis MRI of the thoracic spinal cord in multiple sclero… Lefeuvre J, …, Nair G Proc Int Soc Magn Reson Med Siemens Thoracic Transmit: two electric dipole antennae; Receive: 8 loop coils Conference abstract Lefeuvre et al., 2016
Coil design/Spectroscopy 05/07/12 // 05/18/16 3 healthy volunteers 1H MRS in the human spinal cord at 7T using a diel… Henning A, …, Klomp DWJ NMR Biomed Philips Cervical Transmit: two dipole antennae attached to a neck pillow filled with D2O; Receive: 30-channel array Henning et al., 2016
Chemical exchange saturation transfer 05/07/12 // 07/26/16 10 healthy volunteers and 10 patients with multiple sclerosis Chemical exchange saturation transfer of the cervi… Dula AN, …, Smith SA NMR Biomed Philips Cervical quadrature transmit and 16-channel receive (Nova Medical) Dula et al., 2016b
Diffusion/Parametric mapping (T1, T2, T2*) 05/09/16 // 08/26/16 10 healthy volunteers High-resolution multi-parametric quantitative magn… Massire A, …, Callot V Neuroimage Siemens Cervical 8-channel transceive (Rapid Biomedical) Massire et al., 2016
Coil design/Anatomical imaging/Functional MRI/Diffusion 06/01/15 // 11/17/16 2 healthy volunteers 7 Tesla 22-channel wrap-around coil array for cerv… Zhang B, …, Xu J Magn Reson Med Siemens Cervical 22-channel coil with 4 transceive elements and 18 receive-only elements Zhang et al., 2017
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The first date refers to initial presentation of the research as an abstract. A second date, if present, refers to the day that research was published online in a peer-reviewed journal. Rows are sorted in chronological order where date of journal publication supersedes date of conference presentation.