Technical and Translational Development of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) Imaging
Technical and Translational Development of Cardiovascular MRI (CMR)
Who can join
As published by the study on ClinicalTrials.gov. "Not stated" means the study hasn't said — ask the study team.
- Age
- 7 Years to 100 Years
- Sex
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Compensation
- Not stated
Other requirements are listed under Eligibility below. Only the study team can confirm whether you can join.
What to expect
No one can promise a trial will help you personally — that is what the research is trying to find out.
What participation involves
- Procedures mentioned: MRI scans
Only what the study's summary and detailed description on ClinicalTrials.gov say. Time periods may describe the whole study or a part of it — ask the study team what applies to you.
Show the study's own words
- "Background: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an important non-invasive tool to study and diagnose cardiovascular disease."
- "MRI scanners use strong magnetic fields and radio waves to create pictures of body organs."
- "Researchers are also interested in seeing if gadolinium, the commonly used MRI contrast agent, stays in the body long after the MRI was performed."
- "Participants will have an MRI scan lasting up to 2 hours."
- "Participants may be injected with an MRI contrast agent through a plastic tube inserted in the arm."
- "We will evaluate new developments in non-contrast and contrast MRI of the heart and blood vessels and novel postprocessing methods."
- Compensation
- Not stated
- Study-related exams and procedures are typically provided at no cost. This is how many trials work in general — confirm the details for this study with the study team.
- Participants are monitored closely by the research team throughout the study.
- Some participants may receive access to an investigational treatment, which is still being studied.
- Your participation helps researchers learn whether this approach could help future patients.
About this study
In plain language
This study tests new MRI methods to take pictures of the heart and other organs. It also looks for gadolinium, an MRI contrast dye, left in the brain after earlier scans. People ages 7 and older may join, including healthy people and people with known or suspected heart or other diseases.
Background: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an important non-invasive tool to study and diagnose cardiovascular disease. MRI scanners use strong magnetic fields and radio waves to create pictures of body organs. Researchers want to find better MRI methods and new ways of imaging cardiovascular disease and better understand normal and abnormal cardiovascular and brain function. Researchers are also interested in seeing if gadolinium, the commonly used MRI contrast agent, stays in the body long after the MRI was performed. Objectives: To develop new methods for imaging the heart and other organs of the body. To describe cardiovascular diseases using newer MRI methods To look at the relationship between cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular risk factors and other organ systems To look for gadolinium deposits in the brain from prior exams. Eligibility: Healthy people and people with known or suspected cardiovascular disease ages 7 and older may be eligible for this study. Researchers may be particularly interested in those who: * Have suspected or known cardiovascular disease * Were previously exposed to a gadolinium-based contrast agent, * Need to have a heart MRI scheduled * Need a test of the heart or other body part or will be undergoing a future cardiac catheterization Design: There are multiple arms to the study with optional components; therefore, there are multiple variations as to what an individual participant s experience may involve. Participants will have an MRI scan lasting up to 2 hours. The scanner is a large hollow tube. During the scan, there may be loud knocking and buzzing sounds caused by the scanner. Participants will lie on a table that slides in and out of the tube. Their vital signs may be monitored. Participants may have a test of heart electrical activity using wires connected to pads on the skin. Participants may have blood drawn. Participants may be injected with an MRI contrast agent through a plastic tube inserted in the arm.
Compensation is read from the study's own description and may be missing — always confirm with the study team.
Eligibility
Who can join
- Be age 7 or older.
- Be healthy, or have a known or suspected heart or blood vessel disease, or another disease such as a brain, blood, hormone, lung, or cancer-related illness.
- Give written consent to join, or have a guardian give consent.
- Be willing to follow study steps and attend scheduled visits. People with disease must also follow any food limits.
- Healthy volunteers must have no known heart or blood vessel disease and be able to follow directions and lie still during MRI.
Who can't join
- Being pregnant.
- Having a device or metal in the body that makes MRI unsafe. Some implants are allowed if labeled safe for MRI or safe under certain conditions.
- For healthy volunteers: a major past or ongoing illness, such as a heart attack, a heart defect present at birth, or heart muscle disease.
- Low kidney function may prevent use of contrast dye, but not study participation. The kidney test cutoff is below 60 for healthy volunteers and below 30 for people with disease.
- Breastfeeding while receiving contrast dye, unless willing to throw away breast milk for 24 hours.
- For people with disease: heart or breathing problems that the study doctor finds unstable.
- Healthy children cannot receive contrast dye.
- Healthy volunteers cannot have more than two scans with gadolinium contrast dye in one year. These must be at least 18 hours apart.
Simplified for readability. The official criteria below are what the study team uses.
Official eligibility criteria
* INCLUSION CRITERIA FOR HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS: * Age \>= 7 years * Able to follow instructions and lie still in the MRI scanner * Currently without known Cardiovascular disease * Able to provide informed consent in writing or provide guardian consent * Willingness to cooperate with all study procedures and available for scheduled study events EXCLUSION CRITERIA FOR HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS: * Important past or chronic medical illness such as major cardiovascular conditions like myocardial infarction, congenital heart disease, and known cardiomyopathy * Conditions that are thought to make MRI unsafe (that will be determined by filling out a separate form) including: * Cardiac pacemaker or implantable defibrillator unless it is labeled safe or conditional for MRI * Cerebral aneurysm clip unless it is labeled safe for MRI * Neural stimulator (e.g. TENS-Unit) unless it is labeled safe for MRI * Any type of ear or cochlear implant unless it is labeled safe for MRI * Ocular foreign body (e.g. metal shavings) * Metal shrapnel or bullet unless cleared by plain x-ray as safe for MRI * Any implanted device (e.g. insulin pump, drug infusion device), unless it is labeled safe or conditional for MRI * eGFR \< 60 mL/min/1.73m\^2 using the 2021 CKD-EPI equation or equivalent (using the CRIScalculated eGFR to define the threshold) and a serum creatinine measured within 2 weeks without intercurrent change in medical condition or medications. Subjects meeting this exclusion criterion may still be included in the study but may not be exposed to gadolinium-based contrast agents * Pregnancy. When uncertain of pregnancy status, subjects will undergo serum or urine pregnancy testing within the 7 days prior to the examination. Among those subjects who will receive MRI contrast, subjects of child-bearing potential will under serum or urine pregnancy testing within 7 days of the day prior to examination. In addition, the subject will be asked if she may be pregnant prior to the performance of the MRI, even if the pregnancy test was negative within the past week. The pregnancy test will be repeated if she answers in the affirmative. Post-menopausal and surgically sterilized subjects are automatically exempt from this testing. * If receiving contrast, breast feeding women (unless subject is willing to discard breast milk for 24 hours) are excluded * Healthy volunteer children will not have contrast * In a year's time, healthy volunteers are not restricted as to the number of non-contrast MRI examinations they undergo, but they may not undergo more than two examinations involving gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCA) and those exposures will be at least 18 hours (12 half-lives) apart. INCLUSION CRITERIA FOR SUBJECTS WITH KNOWN OR SUSPECTED WITH HEART DISEASE: * Age \>= 7 years * Subjects with known or suspected cardiovascular disease * Able to provide informed consent in writing or provide guardian consent * Willingness to cooperate with all study procedures (including food restriction) and available for scheduled study events EXCLUSION CRITERIA FOR SUBJECTS WITH KNOWN OR SUSPECTED HEART DISEASE: * Conditions that are thought to make MRI unsafe (that will be determined by filling out a separate form) including: * Cardiac pacemaker or implantable defibrillator unless it is labeled safe or conditional for MRI * Cerebral aneurysm clip unless it is labeled safe for MRI * Neural stimulator (e.g. TENS-Unit) unless it is labeled safe for MRI * Any type of ear or cochlear implant unless it is labeled safe for MRI * Ocular foreign body (e.g. metal shavings) * Metal shrapnel or bullet unless cleared by plain x-ray as safe for MRI * Any implanted device (e.g. insulin pump, drug infusion device), unless it is labeled safe or conditional for MRI * Pregnancy. When uncertain of pregnancy status, subjects will undergo serum or urine pregnancy testing within the 7 days prior to the examination. Among those subjects who will receive MRI contrast, subjects of child-bearing potential will undergo serum or urine pregnancy testing 7 days prior to examination. In addition, the subject will be asked if she may be pregnant prior to the performance of the MRI, even if the pregnancy test was negative within the past week. The pregnancy test will be repeated if she answers in the affirmative. Post-menopausal and surgically sterilized subjects are automatically exempt from this testing. * Breast feeding (unless subject is willing to discard breast milk for 24 hours if receiving contrast) * eGFR \< 30 mL/min/1.73m\^2 using the 2021 CKD-EPI equation or Community Practice Standard for Pediatric case or equivalent and a serum creatinine measured within 2 weeks without intercurrent change in medical condition or medications. Subjects meeting this exclusion criterion may still be included in the study but may not be exposed to gadolinium-based contrast agents * Cardiorespiratory instability as determined by the enrolling clinician INCLUSION CRITERIA FOR SUBJECTS WITH NON-CARDIAC DISEASE: * Age \>= 7 years * Able to provide informed consent in writing or provide guardian consent * Willingness to cooperate with all study procedures (including food restriction) and available for scheduled study events * Known or suspected brain, hematology, oncology, endocrine, pulmonary, or other non-cardiac disease. EXCLUSION CRITERIA FOR SUBJECTS WITH NON- CARDIAC DISEASE: * Conditions that are thought to make MRI unsafe (that will be determined by filling out a separate screening form) including: * Cardiac pacemaker or implantable defibrillator unless it is labeled safe or conditional for MRI * Cerebral aneurysm clip unless it is labeled safe for MRI * Neural stimulator (e.g. TENS-Unit) unless it is labeled safe for MRI * Any type of ear or cochlear implant unless it is labeled safe for MRI * Ocular foreign body (e.g. metal shavings) * Metal shrapnel or bullet unless cleared by plain x-ray as safe for MRI * Any implanted device (e.g. insulin pump, drug infusion device), unless it is labeled safe or conditional for MRI * Pregnancy. When uncertain of pregnancy status, subjects will undergo serum or urine pregnancy testing within the 7 days prior to the examination. Among those subjects who will receive MRI contrast, subjects of child-bearing potential will undergo serum or urine pregnancy testing on the day of the examination. In addition, the subject will be asked if she may be pregnant prior to the performance of the MRI, even if the pregnancy test was negative within the past week. The pregnancy test will be repeated if she answers in the affirmative. Post-menopausal and surgically sterilized subjects are automatically exempt from this testing. * Breast feeding in those subjects receiving contrast (unless subject is willing to discard breast milk for 24 hours * eGFR \< 30 mL/min/1.73m\^2 using the 2021 CKD-EPI equation or equivalent and a serum creatinine measured within 2 weeks without intercurrent change in medical condition or medications. Subjects meeting this exclusion criterion may still be included in the study but may not be exposed to gadolinium-based contrast agents * Cardiorespiratory instability or as determined by the enrolling clinician
Study sites (1)
MD
- National Institutes of Health Clinical Center · Bethesda, MD 20892For more information at the NIH Clinical Center contact Office of Patient Recruitment (OPR) · Study contact · 800-411-1222 ext. TTY8664111010 · prpl@cc.nih.govMore trials in Bethesda