Perfusion and Diffusion Mechanism of Intervertebral Disc-Significance With Age, Degeneration, Posture and Stress Loading.

N/ACompletedNCT01973257

National Taiwan University Hospital50 enrolled

Overview

The purpose of our study is to evaluate the perfusion of the IVDs and their diffusion ability by using the Dynamic contrast-enhanced MR perfusion technique and Diffusion weighted image with ADC value measurement, and to determine the relationship between these data and the degeneration of IVDs, the different posture, and different stress-loading status.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Purpose

DIAGNOSTIC

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Spinal Cord Injury, Degenerative Spinal Disease.

Interventions

imaging diagnosticsPROCEDURE

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 20 YearsMax age: 80 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Patients with a diagnosis of spinal cord injury and degenerative spinal disease * Normal volunteers Exclusion Criteria: \- Patients with cancer and infection.

Locations (1)

Tiffany Ting-Fang Shih

Taipei, Taiwan

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Disc Perfusion

Time frame: 3 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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