TY - GEN N1 - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions. Y1 - 2018/06/16/ AV - public TI - Comparison of cervical cord results from a quantitative 3D multi-parameter mapping (MPM) protocol of the whole brain with a dedicated cervical cord protocol A1 - Samson, R A1 - Battiston, M A1 - Seif, M A1 - Cohen-Adad, J A1 - Freund, P A1 - Gandini Wheeler-Kingshott, C UR - http://archive.ismrm.org/2018/0671.html PB - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) N2 - We present a comparison of cervical cord metrics obtained using both a whole brain and dedicated cord implementation of a recently introduced quantitative multi-parametric MRI protocol which provides apparent proton density, R1, magnetisation transfer saturation (MTsat) and R2* maps sensitive to microstructural tissue changes in brain and spinal cord. Similar whole cervical cord (levels C1-C5) parameters were obtained using either protocol, and inter-subject variation was low, however in order to investigate tissue-specific cord parameters the dedicated cord protocol with higher in-plane resolution would be desirable. ID - discovery10068975 ER -