NCT01549379

Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Computed Tomography (CT) for Head and Neck Cancer

Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Computed Tomography (DCE-CT) to Assess Lymph Node Metastases in Head and Neck Cancer: A Prospective Study

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1 (actual)
• Sponsor: London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

For patients undergoing treatment for head and neck cancer, this study will use dynamic contrast-enhanced CT scans to try to determine which lymph nodes in the neck contain cancer and require surgical removal.

Conditions

• Head and Neck Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
RADIATION	Dynamic Contrast Enhanced CT scan	The neck will be scanned using 120 kVp, 50 mAs, 8 x 5 mm slices at intervals of 2.8 - 3.0 s for 3 min. Contrast (e.g. Visipaque 320) at a dosage of 0.7 ml/kg is injected at 4 ml/s through an antecubital vein after a delay of 6 s from start of scanning.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-07-01
• Primary completion: 2014-08-01
• Completion: 2014-08-01
• First posted: 2012-03-09
• Last updated: 2014-10-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada