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Visible “Butterfly” of the Cervical Spinal Cord: A Pilot study using high-resolution Phase-Sensitive and multiple Fast Field Echo MR imaging
bingbing gao1, Yanwei Miao1, Qingwei Song1, Ailian Liu1, and Jiazheng Wang2
1the First Affiliated hospital of Dalian Medical university, Dalian, China, 2Philips Healthcare, BeiJing, China
The present study aims to visualize the cervical spinal marrow with high resolution axial phase-sensitive inversion recovery (PSIR) and multiple Fast Field Echo (FFE) images, and further to detect the image quality differentially on gray and white matters. 
Table 3. comparison of GM to WM signal intensity measured from the high resolution PSIR and FFE
Figure1 Axial cervical spinal cord PSIR (a) and multiple FFE (b) images