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Tractography and Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Human Spinal Cord in Healthy Subjects : Anatomical Atlas

NCT05079945 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 49

Last updated 2025-09-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Today, Spinal cord pathologies, whether are tumoral, vascular, traumatic, malformative, inflammatory, or degenerative still constitute a major medico-surgical challenge due to the particular anatomy of the spinal cord. Indeed, the spinal fibers (whether they have a sensory or motor function) are all condensed in an extremely small volume. To date, there is no reliable technique to know the precise position of the spinal tracts specifically involved in the sensory and motor functions of the upper and lower limbs.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility for differentiating spinal tracts by tractography from a cerebral Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) sequence (associated with an anatomical sequence) by performing a stitching process with spinal cord DTI MRI sequence, in healthy subjects. The criterion of differentiation of the tracts will be assessed by highlighting already known cerebral tracts (cortico-spinal fibers, spinothalamic, posterior cord) and which will be monitored at the spinal level.

Conditions

  • Healthy Volunteer

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Spinal cord Tractography in order to differentiate spinal tracts.

Spinal cord tractography using DTI MRI sequences of the brain and spinal cord, in order to differentiate tracts at the spinal cord level; and by performing a stitching process between Brain and Spinal cord DTI sequences.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospices Civils de Lyon

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • DAULEAC Corentin, Dr · Hospices Civils de Lyon

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
85 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-02-05
Primary Completion
2022-04-30
Completion
2022-04-30

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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