NCT01878058

Identifying Prostate Brachytherapy Seeds Using MRI

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 10 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University Health Network, Toronto · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study will look at the feasibility of using a type of Magnetic Resonance Imaging called Susceptibility Weighted Imaging (SWI) to detect your implanted radioactive seeds. Researchers hope that using SWI will eliminate the need to use CT imaging to detect your implanted radioactive seeds. This study will also see if the MRI seed detection is as effective as current standard practice of seed detection (routine MRI and CT imaging). This technique would be beneficial for brachytherapy without the need to fuse the MRI and CT images, as is done currently.

Conditions

• Prostate Cancer Patients Who Have Brachytherapy Seed Implant

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	MRI Scan	Patient will receive an additional MRI scan in addition to their standard of care imaging

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-10-01
• Primary completion: 2016-08-01
• Completion: 2016-08-01
• First posted: 2013-06-14
• Last updated: 2016-11-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada