Pilot Study of Measurement Agreement Between Morphological and Diffusion Tensor Imaging MRI for Pelvic Nerve Cartography (NERVWATCH)

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Pelvic MRI

Treatments: Other: MRI

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03320343

NIMAO/2017-01/MB-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators hypothesize that diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) will produce a similar map of autonomic pelvic innervation to that obtained using 3D morphological MRI sequences

Enrollment: 20 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The patient must have given their free and informed consent and signed the consent form
• The patient must be a member or beneficiary of a health insurance plan
• The patient it at least 18 years old
• The patient has been admitted for an MRI examination of the pelvic region, for any reason

Exclusion criteria

• The subject is participating in an interventional study, or is in a period of exclusion determined by a previous study
• The subject refuses to sign the consent
• It is impossible to give the subject informed information
• The patient is under safeguard of justice or state guardianship
• The patient is pregnant or breast feeding
• There is a contra-indication for MRI (pacemaker, claustrophobic patient)
• The patient has had previous pelvic surgery

Trial design

20 participants in 1 patient group

Patients recruited for pelvic imaging examination

Treatment:

Other: MRI