MRI Technology for Greater Efficiency and Improved Value
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to find out if new Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) computer software will: * help make scans and exams faster * reduce artifacts * make MRI easier to understand * allow technicians to focus more on the participant and less on the scanner Participants will complete one brain MRI imaging session, lasting about 60 minutes.
Description
The overall goal of this application is to design technologies that improve the value of MRI, and specifically mitigate many of the complications that negatively impact this value. The scope of MRI value is vast, but can be expressed by efficiency (high patient throughput and consistent image quality), accessibility (better scope of use and equity of availability), safety, and user experience for the patient, technologist, and interpreting physician.
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Yes
Healthy Controls Inclusion Criteria: * Adults at least 18 years * Able to provide written informed consent on their own behalf Brain MR Inclusion Criteria: * Adults at least 18 years * Able to provide written informed consent on their own behalf * Scheduled for standard of care brain MRI Exclusion Criteria (ALL): * Unable or unwilling to provide informed consent * Contraindication(s) to or inability to undergo MRI * Currently pregnant * Participants requiring intravenous (IV) conscious sedation for imaging are not eligible; participants requiring mild, oral anxiolytics for the clinical MR…
Interventions
- DeviceBrain MRI
90 participants will undergo a 60 minute SOC brain MRI followed by 15 minute spiral MRI
- DeviceBrain MRI - SOC and spiral
6 participants will be scanned using 2 versions (SOC and spiral) pf 6 sequences (12 scans total).
- DeviceBrain MRI - spiral
10 participants will be scanned with 3 sequences, 3 times (9 total scans per participants)
- DeviceBrain MRI - SOC and spiral
10 participants will be scanned using 2 versions (SOC and spiral) of 6 sequences (12 scans total).
- DeviceBrain MRI - spiral
10 participants will be scanned with 3 spiral sequences to achieve desired signal to noise ratio (SNR).
- DeviceBrain MRI - spiral
5 participants will be scanned with 2 pairs of 6 spiral sequences.
Location
- University of Wisconsin - MadisonMadison, Wisconsin