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Quantitative Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Breast MRI

NCT00582764 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 116

Last updated 2015-07-08

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to see if dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) MRI imaging makes it possible to distinguish benign conditions of the breast from malignant tumors and provide better information than can be obtained with regular MRI. DCE MRI uses a new way of collecting and analyzing the images or pictures which provides doctors extra information not available with standard imaging methods. This includes information about the blood vessels of different breast diseases. Pictures produced this way look just like the regular MRI pictures. The DCE MRI adds another imaging sequence (another scan) to the MRI examination ordered by your physician to evaluate your breast lesion, thus increasing the exam time (extra 10 min). The information gained from doing the new test, the DCE MRI, will not be used in your treatment and will not affect the type of care you receive for your breast lesions.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

perform dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) MRI

With an IV catheter in place, the patient will lie prone on the MRI scanner table with the breasts positioned in the commercial breast coil and then be moved feet first to the center of the MRI scanner. The only difference introduced by the addition of DCE MRI is that before the patient is moved into the scanner for the first time, the IV catheter will be hooked up with a programmable power injector (Medrad, Indianola, PA) which is loaded with Gd contrast and saline. The contrast injection and saline flush will be delivered by the injector while the patient is inside the scanner and the DCE MRI data collection is in process. The Gd contrast dose used for DCE MRI is the same as for clinical MRI: 0.1 mmol/kg. The injection speed of 2 mL/sec is safe and similar to that of manual injection.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Sunitha Thakur, PhD · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Eligibility

Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-09-30
Primary Completion
2015-07-31
Completion
2015-07-31

Countries

  • United States

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