Fine-Tuning MRI scanners to sharpen the picture of the brain
NCT ID NCT05090956
First seen Jul 20, 2026 · Last updated Jul 21, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study uses a research-dedicated 3T MRI scanner to develop and optimize imaging protocols in healthy adults. Researchers aim to reduce image distortions, improve contrast and resolution, and create new sequences for functional MRI. The work will help enable future studies in cognitive neuroscience and other fields.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) protocol development
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this work could improve the quality and capabilities of MRI for future research, potentially enabling better brain imaging studies.
- What could go wrong
- This is a technical development study, not a treatment trial. It may not lead directly to any clinical application.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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230 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Jun 2012
- Finished
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Jan 2020
- Lead sponsor
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A government agency
The lead sponsor is a government body.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: Healthy adult, age = 18 years; * Visual, hearing , oral or written capacities and expression sufficient for the suitable realization of the tests; * Obtaining of the informed consent of the subject. Exclusion Criteria: * Subjects presenting a neurological, psychiatric history; * Subjects under chronic medication which can influence the intellectual activity; * Subjects presenting a contraindication to the MRI (carriers of a pacemaker, an implanted material(equipment) activated by an electric, magnetic or mechanical system, carriers of haemostatic clips of anévrysmes intracérébraux or carotid arteries, carriers of orthopaedic, claustrophobic implants); * Subjects refusing to be informed about the possible presence of an anatomical anormality; * administrative Problems: impossibility to give about the information, no insurance, refusal to sign the consent, under guardianship subject ; * Subjects participating in another protocol • pregnancy
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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Inserm U825
Toulouse, France
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