7T MRI Seminar: 7T Spinal Cord MRI: current landscape and feedback from the Marseille site
Abstract
With more than 110 systems now installed across the world, 7 Tesla (7T) systems have become very attractive for clinical and research explorations, especially in the brain.
In the spinal cord (SC), recent developments have open interesting perspectives, however 7T SC MRI is not yet as advanced.
In this presentation, I will try to give an overview of what can (and cannot) be done at 7T on the spinal cord, mostly focusing on developments that have been performed in our lab and trying to provide some feedback on the opportunities and remaining challenges.
Virginie Callot
CRMBM, CNRS, Aix-Marseille University (France)
Virginie Callot is a CNRS researcher director at CRMBM-CEMEREM (Centre de Résonance Magnétique Biologique et Médicale) at Aix-Marseille University (France), where she leads the Spinal Cord MRI research group.
Trained in Physics at the University of Reims (France), V. Callot obtained her PhD degree from the University of Lyon (France) working on encapsulated hyperpolarized helium3 Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). During her postdoctoral positions at NIH (Bethesda, USA) and MGH (Boston, USA), she worked on cardiac diffusion-perfusion MRI and relaxometry. She then joined the CRMBM-CEMEREM in Marseille (France), where she first worked on brain tumors before moving toward spinal cord multimodal MRI.
The general objective of her research group is to improve the non-invasive characterization of the spinal cord impairments and to help in the description of the spinal cord pathophysiological mechanisms using quantitative and multi-parametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
The project is developed transversally, from mouse models to humans, using clinical research and ultra-high field MR systems.
Current pathologies under investigation include Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Cervicarthrosic Myelopathy (CSM), as well as normal Ageing and microtraumatism.
Date and time
Thursday, March 20th, 2025, 11:00 to 12:00 pm CET
Location
Virtual on Zoom and on-site at CHUV Radiology, room BH07 147 demo1.
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