White Matter Fiber Tracking and Assessment of White Matter Integrity in the Cervical Spinal Cord

Completed

Conditions studied: Spinal Cord Compression

In brief

White matter fiber tracking may provide a novel tool to assess the integrity of injured motor tracts in the cervical spine. It provides information about fiber directions which is not given by conventional MRI. White matter fiber tracking in the brain is used at several institutions, including our own medical college, for presurgical planning of tumor excision. We believe that the technical and clinical experience gained for the brain can be applied to fiber tracking in the cervical spine as well.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00280306

Run by

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

People needed

35

Starts

2005-11-01

Expected to finish

2008-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-06-04

Who can join

Age: 21 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Normal controls Spinal cord injury

You may not qualify if…

• N/A

Where it is running

• Weill Medical College of Cornell — New York, New York, United States

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