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Abstract #0346

Morphological Standards for the Human Spinal Cord Validations and Preliminary Applications to Patients

Virginie Callot1, Lo Fradet2, 3, Jean-Philippe Ranjeva4, Guillaume Duhamel5, Olivier M. Girard4, Pierre-Jean Arnoux2, Yvan Petit3

1Centre de Rsonance Magntique Biologique et Mdicale (CRMBM, UMR 7339), Aix-Marseille University, Marseille , France; 2Laboratoire de Biomcanique Applique (LBA, UMRT 24), IFSTTAR / Aix-Marseille Universit, Marseille, France; 3Department of Mechanical Engineering, cole de technologie superieure, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; 4Centre de Rsonance Magntique Biologique et Mdicale (CRMBM, UMR 7339), CNRS / Aix-Marseille Universit, Marseille, France; 5Centre de Rsonance Magntique Biologique et Mdicale (CRMBM, UMR 7339), Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France

The objective of this study was to investigate SC morphological statistical differences (intra/inter-individual, age, sex, postmortem/in vivo) and to provide invariant features of the complete in vivo human normal spinal cord that may serve as database for individualized study of SC pathophysiological conditions, either for clinical practice and prognosis evaluation or to establish an accurate model of the SC that will open new perspectives to study compressive mechanisms such as encountered in SC injury or spondylotic myelopathy.

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