NCT03340545

MR Elastography for the Herniated Intervertebral Disc

Evaluating Changes in Mechanical Properties in the Herniated Intervertebral Disc

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 34 (actual)
• Sponsor: Penn State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Low back pain is a major cause of disability, especially in the working-age population. A total of 149 million working days are lost every year as a consequence of back pain. Intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration is thought to play a major role in chronic back and neck pain. Decades of bench-top research in tissue mechanics have shown clear relationships between changes in mechanical properties and abnormal changes IVD structure and composition. Our overall hypothesis is that measurements of IVD mechanical properties can provide valuable information about its structure and composition for early diagnosis of degeneration, quantification of degeneration progress, and evaluation of treatment strategies. Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE) is an imaging method to quantify mechanical properties from soft tissues. The objectives of this study are to evaluating repeatability and collecting base line data from healthy individuals; and to apply MRE to patients with disc herniation.

Conditions

• Intervertebral Disc Herniation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Custom Magnetic Resonance Elastography Device	Magnetic Resonance Elastography is an imaging method to measure mechanical properties of tissues.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-12-01
• Primary completion: 2018-12-11
• Completion: 2018-12-11
• First posted: 2017-11-13
• Last updated: 2019-07-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States