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Studying a New Piece of Equipment That Can Help Plan Radiation Therapy of the Spine

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) logo

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)

Status

Active, not recruiting

Conditions

Thoracic Neoplasms
Spine Disease
Thoracic Diseases
Spine Metastases
Thoracic Cancer
Spine Cancer

Treatments

Diagnostic Test: MRI with custom MRI spine coil

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

Details and patient eligibility

About

Participants will receive an MRI with a custom-built MRI coil for each participant. The purpose is to find out whether this custom-built MRI coil can help doctors see the different parts of the spine as well as or better than they can with standard CT myelograms.

Enrollment

9 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • >/= 18 years of age at the time of treatment

  • Able to give informed consent

  • Consented for spine stereotactic radiation therapy

  • No contraindications for CT myelograms which include:

    • Allergy to CT contrast
    • Use of phenothiazines
    • Platelet count < 60,000 K/mcl
    • INR > 1.5
    • VEGF inhibitor use in the past 2 weeks prior to myelogram
    • NSAID use in the past 5 days prior to myelogram
    • Renal disease
    • Creatinine > 1.2 mg/dL
  • No contraindications for MRI scans which include:

    • Newly placed glucose monitors
    • Tattoos (Tattoos for radiation therapy are allowed)
    • Presence of a cardiac pacemaker
    • Presence of an implanted cardioverter defibrillator
    • Breast tissue expander
    • Aneurysm clip
    • Any other implanted metallic (BB, bullet, shrapnel, IUD, metallic stent or filter, spinal cord simulator etc.) or electronic device which is considered MR unsafe
    • Severe claustrophobia or inability to lie flat for the duration of the study, etc.

Exclusion criteria

  • Presence of surgical spine hardware at the region of interest
  • Presence of cervical spine lesions
  • History of claustrophobia

Trial design

Primary purpose

Diagnostic

Allocation

N/A

Interventional model

Single Group Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

9 participants in 1 patient group

Thoracic, lumbar and sacral spine lesions
Experimental group
Description:
Participants will have thoracic, lumbar and sacral spine lesions
Treatment:
Diagnostic Test: MRI with custom MRI spine coil

Trial contacts and locations

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