Copyright © 2012 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Unauthorized commercial reproduction of this slide is prohibited Supplemental PowerPoint Slides In Vivo Tracing of Neural Tracts in Tip-Toe Walking Yoshimura Mice by Diffusion Tensor Tractography Morito Takano, MD, Yuji Komaki, MS, Keigo Hikishima, PhD, Tsunehiko Konomi, MD, Kanehiro Fujiyoshi, MD, PhD, Osahiko Tsuji, MD, PhD, Yoshiaki Toyama, MD, PhD, Hideyuki Okano, MD, PhD, Masaya Nakamura, MD, PhD

Copyright © 2012 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Unauthorized commercial reproduction of this slide is prohibited Supplemental PowerPoint Slides This basic imaging study confirms that in vivo DTT of twy mice could detect the disruption of tract fibers in the chronically compressed spinal cord.

Copyright © 2012 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Unauthorized commercial reproduction of this slide is prohibited Supplemental PowerPoint Slides In twy mice, spinal canal stenosis over around 50-60% caused a sharp decrease in the number of tract fibers depicted by diffusion tensor tractography.