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Comparison of Intraneural and Extraneural Young's Modulus Using Shear Wave Elastography

NCT01903369 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 47

Last updated 2019-05-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The investigators would like to compare the stiffness inside and outside nerves using a special type of ultrasound imaging called shear wave elastography. Shear wave elastography is a special form of ultrasound as the pictures taken are in colour. An ultrasound machine has different ways of taking pictures of inside the body: one is by measuring the brightness of different body parts (often referred to as the B-Mode scan), the pictures taken in this way are the same as those you may have seen of unborn babies inside their mum's tummies; another way is by measuring the stiffness of different body structures which is how shear wave elastography works. The investigators hope that this new technology will help doctors to see the parts of the body that are important to them.

Conditions

  • Regional Anaesthesia

Interventions

DEVICE

Shear Wave Elastography

Shear wave elastography

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Dundee

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Graeme A McLeod, MBChB FRCA · NHS Tayside

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Max Age
90 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-09-25
Primary Completion
2015-03-26
Completion
2015-07-10
FDA Device
Yes

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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