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DTI of the Brain and Cervical Spine: Evaluation in Normal Subjects and Patients With Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy

NCT01868958 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 26

Last updated 2015-07-15

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

More than half of the middle-aged population has radiologic evidence of cervical spondylosis (Irvine 1965) and a subset of this population develops cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM), a condition in which the spinal cord is impaired, either by direct mechanical compression or indirectly by arterial deprivation and/or venous stasis. In this study we aim to test the hypothesis that diffusion tensor imaging can provide prognostic information on the integrity of the spine in these patients which is unavailable from conventional MRI images

Conditions

  • Cervical Spondylosis With Myelopathy

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Siemens Medical Solutions

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • Emory University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Richard A Jones, PhD · Department of Radiology, Emory University

Eligibility

Min Age
30 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-01-31
Primary Completion
2015-06-30
Completion
2015-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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