[tel-00817187] Cartographie in vivo des remaniements anatomo-fonctionnels de l'architecture des réseaux neuronaux dans le système nerveux central au cours du développement par Imagerie du Tenseur de Diffusion et Imagerie renforcée par le manganèse

The thesis aim is to develop MRI methods to study the impact of focal transient ischemia in neonatal rat brain. The principal techniques used are MEMRI (Manganese Enhanced MRI), DTI (Diffusion Tensor Imaging) and QBI (Q-Ball Imaging). MEMRI was used to observe in a dynamic way the cortico-thalamic manganese transport combined with the structural informations extracted from the DTI experiments. Results have shown a cortico-thalamic pathway disturbance, at seven and fourteen days after ischemia. Globally DTI results have shown a slowed brain structuration. From these results, the feasibility of a fast acquisition method and the post processing steps of Q-ball protocol was established and applied in an immature rat. The different MRI protocols developed during this thesis have shown good efficiency to follow the rat brain maturation, in healthy and pathological conditions, thus opening new perspectives for brain development studies.



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