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.