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CompletedNCT00156585

Predictive Value of Dynamic Contrast Enhancement MRI on a Cerebral Tumor Response to Gamma Knife Treatment

Prospective Study of Predictive Value of Dynamic Contrast Enhancement Magnetic Resonance Imaging With Gadolinium on the Response of a Cerebral Tumor to a Treatment With Gamma Knife

Status
Completed
Phase
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
31 (actual)
Sponsor
Martin Lepage · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
18 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

Hypothesis: the pattern of MRI contrast enhancement after gadolinium injection is different in tumors that respond well to gamma knife. We are going to acquire sequential T1-weighted images of brain lesions before, during and after injection of Gd-DTPA. This will be repeated before and after a treatment with gamma knife. We will then analyse our results to see if there are common enhancement characteristics between lesions that will respond well to the radiosurgery treatment. Response will be clinically assessed by tumor volume as determined by MRI approximately 4 to 6 months after treatment.

Conditions

Timeline

Start date
2005-08-01
Primary completion
2008-04-01
Completion
2008-04-01
First posted
2005-09-12
Last updated
2015-01-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00156585. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.