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Small Vessel Diseases: Ultra-realistic Microstructure Computational Model to Refine Individual Treatment

Not Applicable
Recruiting
Conditions
Small Vessel Disease
Interventions
Device: MRI
Registration Number
NCT06159140
Lead Sponsor
University Hospital, Tours
Brief Summary

Small vessel disease (SVD) accounts for 25% of strokes and is the second most common cause of dementia after Alzheimer's disease. Unlike other causes of stroke, SVD manifests itself years before the stroke by the accumulation of tissue damage. Although heterogeneous, these lesions appear on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) as white matter hypersignals (WMH). In this context, the ANR SUMMIT project will characterize these lesions in vivo to develop new markers in the early stages of stroke. It is subdivided into 4 work packages, the third one being promoted by CHRU de Tours.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
20
Inclusion Criteria

Prior Enrollement in Tours body donation program Age ≥ 82 years Able to remain supine in the MR scanner for acquisition (duration 60-minutes) Affiliation to social security Informed and written consent

Exclusion Criteria

Contraindications to body donation, especially infectious disease (VIH, HBV...) Contraindications to MRI

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SINGLE_GROUP
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Healthy subjectsMRIMRI and neuropsychological evaluation
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
In vivo and ex vivo MRI measures databaseline

We will compare In vivo data: 20 MR datasets, 20 quantitative SUMMIT maps (predicted microstructure)

Ex vivo data :

* 3 very high-resolution MR datasets and derived quantitative microstructural maps

* 18 brain samples: scanned at 17.2T by the Neurospin partner and processed with the SUMMIT method to obtain high-resolution quantitative microstructural maps

* these 18 samples will be processed to get ground truth histological 3D volumes (Mircen partner).

Maps of the microstructure parameters obtained from MRI (in and ex vivo) and the SUMMIT method will be quantitatively compared to histological data.

This will validate the SUMMIT method at clinical (in vivo) and mesoscopic resolution (ex vivo).

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Scores at neuropsychological evaluationbaseline

Scores at neuropsychological evaluation

FLAIR and SUMMIT maps (MRI evaluation)baseline

In vivo FLAIR and SUMMIT maps.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

UHT of Tours

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Tours, France

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