Our work established an automatic pipeline of cervical spinal
cord high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) data.
Our pipeline that projects the diffusion results into
high-resolution anatomical space utilizes Spinal Cord Toolbox
(SCT), FSL libraries, in-house developed scripts and
TORQUE-based batch system for grid computational engines. As
one of the first, we are investigating multiple-direction
models for human in-vivo spinal cord HARDI dMRI data. The
visually inspected preliminary results indicate that
significant 2 nd directions are observable as expected based on
previously presented mainly animal models. Our work provides an
essential clinical tool that will allow quantifying spinal cord
and dorsal spinal roots alterations in various neurological
diseases in vivo.