NCT02622139

Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomography (MSOT) for the Evaluation of Disease Activity in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD)

Monocentric, Prospective Interventional Study to Assess the Degree of Disease Activity With a Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomography (MSOT) Handheld Scanner in Patients With Crohn's Disease or Ulcerative Colitis

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 344 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Medical School · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Monocentric, prospective interventional study to assess the degree of disease activity with a multispectral optoacoustic tomography (MSOT) handheld scanner in patients with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis.

Detailed description

The proposed study is designed as a pilot study to evaluate the usefulness of MSOT for the evaluation of disease activity in IBD patients. As current methods for the evaluation of intestinal inflammation in IBD have relevant restrictions, new, non-invasive, quantitative, and accurate modalities are urgently needed. In comparison to other techniques, MSOT provides relevant advantages such as non-invasive imaging, high spatial resolution (this is of special importance for the evaluation of the intestine, which can be only a few millimeters thick), and highly sensitive detection of specific molecules such as total hemoglobin or oxy- /deoxygenated hemoglobin. These advantages suggest MSOT as an outstanding technique for evaluating disease activity in IBD. The proposed study incorporates nearly no risk for participating patients and might provide relevant data for more a more in depth analysis of MSOT for IBD diagnosis.

Conditions

• Crohn's Disease
• Ulcerative Colitis
• IBD

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomography (MSOT)	MSOT for the evaluation of disease activity in IBD patients

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-11-01
• Primary completion: 2017-10-01
• Completion: 2019-12-01
• First posted: 2015-12-04
• Last updated: 2019-12-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany