NCT01699477

Safety Study Using Transcranial MR Guided Focused Ultrasound in the Treatment of Neuropathic Pain

MR-Guided Functional Ultrasound-Neurosurgery

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University Children's Hospital, Zurich · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to asses the efficacy and the clinical safety of the transcranial magnetic resonance guided high intensity focused ultrasound system ExAblate 4000, InSightec Ltd. for functional neurosurgery. The treatments to be conducted in this study are non-invasive, i.e. without opening the skull, and will create micro-thalamotomies in specific target areas such as thalamus, subthalamus and pallidum. The data obtained in this study will be used to evaluate the basic safety aspects of this new treatment technology and will serve as a basis for the clinical introduction of MR-guided ultrasound-neurosurgery.

Conditions

• Functional Brain Disorders /Neuropathic Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	ExAblate 4000 focused ultrasound brain intervention	Non-invasive brain intervention using MR-guided focused ultrasound

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-08-01
• Primary completion: 2013-12-01
• Completion: 2013-12-01
• First posted: 2012-10-03
• Last updated: 2012-10-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland