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Application of MRI in diagnosis of lumbar spinal stenosis
ZHOU Xiaohang  SHI Kaiwen  DING Hongwei 

Cite this article as: Zhou XH, Shi KW, Ding HW. Application of MRI in diagnosis of lumbar spinal stenosis. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2019, 10(1): 77-80. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2019.01.015.


[Abstract] Currently, lumbar spinal stenosis is mainly diagnosed by imaging, espacially magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which has become an important method due to its unique advantages. MRI shows the spinal canal stenosis with the transverse, sagittal and coronal surfaces intuitively. For the central spinal stenosis, some morphological manifestations of MR, such as nerve root sedimentation sign and redundant nerve roots can quantitatively or qualitatively determine the degree of spinal stenosis to help determine whether there are surgical indications. Diffusion tensor imaging based on the diffusion anisotropy of water molecules, makes a vector diagram or color coding to show the nerve fiber bundle imaging. By observing the nerve fiber bundle anomaly can quantitatively evaluate the degree of foraminal stenosis. Therefore, MRI has obvious advantages in diagnosis of lumbar spinal stenosis.
[Keywords] spinal stenosis；magnetic resonance imaging；diffusion tensor imaging

ZHOU Xiaohang Department of Orthopedics, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210017, China

SHI Kaiwen Department of Orthopedics, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210017, China

DING Hongwei* Department of Orthopedics, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210017, China

*Corresponding to: Ding HW, E-mail: 275873826@qq.com

Conflicts of interest   None.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS  This paper is supported by the Scientific Research Fund of Jiangsu Provincial Department of Health No. YB2015055
Received  2018-07-25
Accepted  2018-10-11
DOI: 10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2019.01.015
Cite this article as: Zhou XH, Shi KW, Ding HW. Application of MRI in diagnosis of lumbar spinal stenosis. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2019, 10(1): 77-80. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2019.01.015.

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