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New Approaches in MRI at 3T Dedicated to Targeting Subthalamic Nucleus on Parkinsonian Patients

Sponsor: Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France

Summary

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) is a validated procedure, used in many French and international centers for the treatment of severe forms of Parkinson's disease (PD). The improvement of parkinsonian motor symptoms by stimulation of the STN is 50 to 80% on average. The main advantage of DBS is that the surgery has low morbidity and mortality, it is adaptable to the patient's symptoms and its effect is reversible. This treatment is now a routine and more than 85,000 patients worldwide have benefited from the installation of this system. Since 1997, this treatment is available to patients followed in the Pitié Salpêtrière (GHPS). The accuracy of preoperative anatomic targeting in stereotactic neurosurgery will improve with the use of high-field MRI. However, several new issues and inherent in that high-field MRI should be evaluated before the images can be used directly. The chosen sequences must be short to be feasible, minimizing patient discomfort, and evaluated on several patients to ensure the low interindividual variability. In addition, the quality of the display on all of the sections should provide a reliable three-dimensional information. Finally, the quality of targeting and its possible improvement should be checked.

Official title: Development of New Multi-contrasts Approaches by Magnetic Resonance Imaging at 3 Tesla Dedicated to Targeting Subthalamic Nucleus on Parkinsonian Patients.

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