Editorial Note on: Diagnostic value of diffusion-weighted MR imaging for acute stage of spine cord injury

Editorial Note on: Spinal Cord advance online publication, 7 February 2012; doi:10.1038/sc.2011.168

This paper is about the application of conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) on traumatic spinal cord injury (tSCI) within 24 h. It is really a challenge to perform DWI in the spinal cord. Therefore, only a few papers reported DWI in the early stage of tSCI. With the limited samples, this study claimed that ‘T2-weighted and DW imaging have comparable detection rates for spinal cord damage’.

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