Vibration Response Imaging (VRI) in Patients Who Are Potential Candidates for Surgical Resection
Status unconfirmed
Conditions studied: Lung Cancer
In brief
The primary purpose of the study is to investigate the use of VRI to guide the selection of patients for lung surgery. Perfusion scintigraphy is the current method to assess the fractional contribution of lung function of the remaining lung. The hypothesis is that VRI can determine quantitative postoperative lung function equally accurately as a quantitative perfusion scan.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00966511
- Run by
- Deep Breeze
- People needed
- 200
- Starts
- 2009-06-01
- Expected to finish
- 2011-12-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2011-02-09
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 90. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Able and willing to read, understand, and provide written Informed Consent;
- Age range of 18-90 years;
- Potential candidate for at least lobectomy due to lung cancer or other intrathoracic malignancy (either suspected or proven by biopsy). Both open and minimally invasive (thoracoscopic) resections are acceptable.
- BMI > 19.
You may not qualify if…
- Body habitus or skin condition that might prevent the placement of the sound sensors on the back (e.g. severe scoliosis, kyphosis, chest wall deformation, skin lesion on the back or compression fracture);
- There should be no active pulmonary infection (e.g. pneumonia) at the time of the recordings;
- Hirsutism unless patient is willing to have back shaved;
- Potentially contagious skin lesion on the back;
- Giant bulla (more than 1/3 of the hemithorax or >10cm)
- Pregnant women
Where it is running
- Yale University School of Medicine — New Haven, Connecticut, United States
- Emory University — Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Boston Medical Center, Boston University — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Mt. Sinai School of Medicine — New York, New York, United States
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center — New York, New York, United States
- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center — Houston, Texas, United States
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