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NHLBI-Emory Advanced Cardiac CT Reconstruction

This study is NOT currently recruiting participants.

Summary | Eligibility | Citations | Contacts

Summary

Number

000556-H

Sponsoring Institute

National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

Recruitment Detail

Type: Recruitment has not started
Gender: Male & Female
Min Age: 18 Years
Max Age: 100 Years

Referral Letter Required

Yes

Population Exclusion(s)

Children

Keywords

Heart Disease;
Image;
Natural History

Recruitment Keyword(s)

None

Condition(s)

Structural Heart Disease

Investigational Drug(s)

None

Investigational Device(s)

None

Intervention(s)

None

Supporting Site

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Background:

Doctors use computed tomography (CT) to get detailed pictures of the heart. CT uses x-rays to gather raw data. Computers assemble this data to make the images doctors look at. A new computer technique can make higher resolution images from the same CT scans. In this natural history study, researchers will take normal CT images of the heart. They will compare those images to super high-resolution (super high-res) images made with a super-computer.

Objective:

To improve the quality of heart CT scans by using new methods to create the images.

Eligibility:

People aged 18 years or older who need a CT scan for heart disease.

Design:

Participants will have a normal CT scan. A substance will be injected through a tube in their arm. They will lie on a table in a large, donut-shaped machine. An X-ray tube will move around their body, taking many pictures.

Researchers will use the normal CT scans to create super high-res images. They may do this at the NIH. They may also send the images to the company that made the CT scanner. Participants personal information will be removed before images are sent to the company. The personal information will be replaced by a code.

The super high-res images will be returned to the NIH.

Some information will be collected from participants medical records. Researchers will compare the normal scans to the super high-res images.

Participants' own doctors will also have a chance to see the super high-res images.

Participants' CT pictures will be stored and used for future NIH research.

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Eligibility

INCLUSION CRITERIA:

In order to be eligible to participate in this study, an individual must meet all of the following criteria:

1. Male or female, aged >= 18 years

2. Undergoing clinically-indicated contrast-enhanced time-resolved cardiac CT for structural heart disease.

3. Ability of subject to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document.

EXCLUSION CRITERIA:

An individual who meets any of the following criteria will be excluded from participation in this study:

1. Unable to complete contrast-enhanced cardiac CT acquisition for any reason

2. Unwilling to authorize future use of their imaging data for research


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Citations:

Not Provided

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Contacts:

Principal Investigator

Referral Contact

For more information:

Marcus Y. Chen, M.D.
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
NIHBC 10 - CLINICAL CENTER BG RM B1D47
10 CENTER DR
BETHESDA MD 20892
(301) 496-0077
chenmy@mail.nih.gov

Margaret C. Lowery, R.N.
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
National Institutes of Health
Building 10
Room B1D416
10 Center Drive
Bethesda, Maryland 20892
(301) 451-3128
peg.lowery@nih.gov

Office of Patient Recruitment
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
Building 61, 10 Cloister Court
Bethesda, Maryland 20892
Toll Free: 1-800-411-1222
Local Phone: 301-451-4383
TTY: TTY Users Dial 7-1-1
ccopr@nih.gov

Clinical Trials Number:

NCT05372627

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