We study the pathophysiology of spinal cord decompression sickness. We saturated ex-vivo bovine spinal cord tissue with nitrogen, partially decompressed the samples to induce bubble formation, and then probed the mechanical response of the surrounding tissue by pressure-cycling.
Alvarado R, Scheven U. M, Meiners, J. C.: Real-time Imaging of Decompression Gas Bubble Growth in the Spinal Cord of Live Rats, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2024, in press
