CIC-IT Nancy, in collaboration with IADI in Nancy and ICube in Strasbourg, is recruiting volunteers to perform in-vivo MRI mapping of electrical conductivity. The study will involve three age groups (6-12 years, 20-40 years, and 70 years and older) and will improve our understanding of electrical conductivity in the human body by specifying average values in different organs/tissues and their variability in the population. Our preliminary results [1] suggest significant differences from the reference values used for electromagnetic modeling of the human body (as presented here, based mostly on ex vivo measurements), as well as variability in certain organs depending on age (particularly in the white matter of the brain) or fat fraction (in abdominal organs such as the liver).
More information on this clinical study is available at the following link: https://www.cic-it-nancy.fr/fr/electra/.
[1] Zhongzheng He, Paul Soullié, Pauline M. Lefebvre, Khalid Ambarki, Jacques Felblinger and Freddy Odille. Changes of in vivo electrical conductivity in the brain and torso related to age, fat fraction and sex using MRI. Scientific Reports, 2024; 14:16109. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-67014-9
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