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Assessment of Rat Sciatic Nerve Using Diffusion-Tensor Imaging With Readout-Segmented Echo Planar Imaging.

Yueyao Chen1, Zhongxian Pan1, Fanqi Meng1

  • 1Department of Radiology, Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, The Fourth Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, China.

Frontiers in Neuroscience
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Readout-segmented-5 echo-planar imaging (RS-5 EPI) provides superior image quality and signal-to-noise ratio for rat sciatic nerve diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) at 3T MR. RS-5 EPI demonstrates higher sensitivity for detecting histopathological changes, making it ideal for DTI analysis.

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  • Neuroimaging
  • Biomedical Engineering
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  • Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) is crucial for assessing nerve integrity.
  • Optimizing DTI sequences is essential for accurate histopathological correlation.
  • Rat sciatic nerve models are widely used in preclinical neuroimaging research.

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  • To compare the efficacy of three readout-segmented echo-planar imaging (RS-EPI) sequences (RS3-EPI, RS5-EPI, RS7-EPI) for rat sciatic nerve DTI at 3T MR.
  • To evaluate image quality, artifact reduction, and correlation with histopathological findings.
  • To determine the optimal RS-EPI sequence for quantitative DTI analysis of the sciatic nerve.

Main Methods:

  • Eight Sprague-Dawley rats underwent 3T MR scanning using RS3-EPI, RS5-EPI, and RS7-EPI DTI sequences.
Keywords:
diffusion tensor imagingmagnetic resonance imagingperipheral nervereadout-segmented echo-planar imagingsciatic nerve

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  • Radiologists assessed image quality, nerve morphology, distortions, and homogeneity.
  • Correlations between DTI parameters (fractional anisotropy - FA, radial diffusivity - RD) and histopathological data were analyzed.

    • Main Results:

    • RS-5 EPI demonstrated superior signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) corrected for acquisition time and higher image quality scores compared to RS3-EPI and RS7-EPI.
    • RS-5 EPI showed significantly fewer artifacts and a higher number of detected tracts in diffusion tractography (DTT) analysis.
    • FA and RD values from RS-5 EPI exhibited strong correlations with myelin-related histopathological parameters, with numerically higher coefficients than other sequences.

    Conclusions:

    • RS-5 EPI is the preferred sequence for rat sciatic nerve DTI at 3T MR, offering the best balance of image quality and SNR.
    • Quantitative DTI parameters (FA and RD) derived from RS-5 EPI are highly sensitive biomarkers for detecting sciatic nerve histopathological changes.