Finding studies
Finding studies
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Anastasia Tsakirellis, C.R.N.P.
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Marcus Y Chen, M.D.
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Lead
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) provides accurate and reproducible measures of cardiac chamber volumes, cardiac function, blood flow, myocardial scar, myocardial extracellular volume as a measure of collagen content, myocardial iron content, and others, all without exposure to ionizing radiation. The prevailing wisdom is that CMR using high specific absorption rate (SAR) scanning modes produces highest image quality. We propose a method of CMR that can be performed with low SAR but that nevertheless preserves image quality because of efficient use of CMR signal. CMR using low SAR is attractive because it may reduce heating of metallic structures. This may allow safe CMR in patients with metallic implants, and it may allow MRI catheterization using metallic guidewires and catheter devices. The goal of this non-significant risk (NSR) medical device study is to test initial technical feasibility of low SAR CMR in healthy volunteers by technical optimization of scanner protocols, to test comparative accuracy of standard CMR measurements in healthy volunteers using low SAR CMR versus conventional CMR, and to test comparative accuracy of standard CMR measurements in adult patients with known stable heart disease using low SAR CMR versus conventional CMR. A secondary goal is to assess the potential of this new low SAR CMR system to perform non-cardiovascular radiological diagnostic imaging by testing comparative diagnostic accuracy of standard MR measurements in adult patients with known non-cardiovascular disease using the low SAR CMR system vs conventional MR exam.
Age
18–100
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
