Clinical trials: Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Prostate Cancer
Multifunctional Magnetic Resonance (MR) for Radiotherapy Planning in Prostate Cancer
To determine if functional MRI methods will aid planning of a radiation dose boost within the prostate in patients with prostate cancer potentially improving safety and efficacy.
- Trial name
- NCT01006564
- Testing
- Imaging Investigations (not radiation), Other
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Depressive Disorder, Depressive Disorder, Major
Brain Imaging, Genetics and Treatment for Major Depression
Background: Antidepressants help many people with depression, however, some do not seem to benefit as much. Currently, it is not possible to determine who will improve with certain antidepressants.
- Conditions
- Depressive Disorder, Depressive Disorder, Major, Depression
- Trial name
- NCT01568684
- Testing
- Citalopram
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
Evaluation of Safety and Efficacy of Electrochemotherapy in the Treatment of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
The purpose of this study is to see how well electrochemotherapy works at treating people with Stage III pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Electrochemotherapy is a treatment that combines electroporation and chemotherapy administration.
- Trial name
- NCT02514421
- Testing
- Electroporation, gemcitabine, nab-paclitaxel
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 6 people
- Sponsor
- The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Diabetes, Chronic Kidney Diseases
Benchtop NMR Spectroscopy for Assessment of Clinical Human Pathologies (BRANCH-P STUDY)
This research programme seeks to combine the resources of NHS primary care, with the leading spectroscopic work in low-magnetic fields of the Wilson Group (Nottingham Trent University) to demonstrate the potential for benchtop…
- Conditions
- Diabetes, Chronic Kidney Diseases, Cancer, Bowel Disease
- Trial name
- BRANCH-P (NCT05473325)
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 2,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Willows Health
Gastrointestinal Cancer Metastatic
MAESTRO Study: Metabolic Imaging to Improve Patient-Specific Therapy Outcomes
Patients suffering metastasized gastrointestinal cancer often receive ineffective treatments for prolonged periods of time as therapy non-response, which is hard to detect, cannot be determined earlier than nine weeks following…
- Trial name
- MAESTRO (NCT04534543)
- Testing
- MRI/Spectroscopy
- Where
- 2 sites in Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 70 people
- Sponsor
- Academisch Medisch Centrum - Universiteit van Amsterdam (AMC-UvA)
Bipolar Disorder, Bipolar Depression
Uridine Adolescent Bipolar Depression Randomized Controlled Trial
This is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of the investigational drug uridine as a treatment for depressed adolescents with bipolar disorder (i.e. "bipolar depression").
- Conditions
- Bipolar Disorder, Bipolar Depression, Manic Depression
- Trial name
- NCT01805440
- Testing
- Uridine
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 62 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Utah
Major Depressive Disorder, Anxiety
The Effects of Vilazodone on Glutamate in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Anxious Unipolar Depressives
The purpose of this study is to determine whether vilazodone is more effective than citalopram for the treatment of anxious depression.
- Conditions
- Major Depressive Disorder, Anxiety, Comorbidity
- Trial name
- NCT02028026
- Testing
- Vilazodone, Citalopram
- Where
- United States
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Alzheimer's Disease
Effects of Memantine on Magnetic Resonance (MR) Spectroscopy in Subjects at Risk for Alzheimer's Disease
Recent data show that marked cell damage precedes the clinical manifestation of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Hence, targeting populations at risk with pharmacological interventions is a possible strategy to lessen the burden of the…
- Trial name
- NCT00933608
- Testing
- memantine
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 17 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- NYU Langone Health
Primary Brain Tumor, Glioma
Assistance in Neurosurgery (ExtempoRMN)
The main ambition of this project is to develop, and provide the medical community, an innovative method to analyze extemporaneously, during a neurosurgery operation, excised tissues.
- Trial name
- ExtempoRMN (NCT02272452)
- Testing
- High-Resolution Magic-Angle Spinning Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy
- Where
- 3 sites in France
- Volunteers
- 1,000 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Strasbourg, France
Mitochondrial Disease
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Muscle Phenotyping in Mitochondrial Disease
The purpose of the study is to use a new research imaging technique, a kind of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), to measure important metabolic features of muscle, including mitochondrial function, in people with mitochondrial…
- Trial name
- NCT02154711
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Major Depressive Disorder, Treatment-Resistant Depression
Antidepressant Effects of TS-161 in Treatment-Resistant Depression
Background: Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common, chronic mental illness. It can take weeks to months for antidepressants to work. Researchers want to test a new drug that might act more rapidly.
- Conditions
- Major Depressive Disorder, Treatment-Resistant Depression, Depression
- Trial name
- NCT04821271
- Testing
- TS-161
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 11 people
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia, Related Troubles and Glutathione: Clinical Trial. Effects of Oral Administration of N-Acetylcysteine (NAC) on the Brain Glutathione Level and on the Symptoms of Schizophrenia
The results of the study "schizophrenia, related disorders and glutathione" conducted at the Laboratory of Psychiatric Neuroscience (LUNEP) DUPA of Lausanne, reinforce the hypothesis proposed that a deficit intracerebral…
- Trial name
- NCT01506765
- Testing
- N-Acetyl-Cysteine (NAC)
- Volunteers
- 13 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois
Prostate Lesions
Imaging of Prostate Cancer Using Two-dimensional MR Spectroscopy and Diffusion Tensor Imaging
The goal is to develop MR imaging techniques to improve delineation of cancer extent, and to improve differential diagnosis between prostate cancer and benign prostate hyperplasia or other benign diseases.
- Trial name
- NCT00611065
- Testing
- magnetic resonance imaging
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, Irvine
Bipolar Disorder
Oral Uridine for Treatment of Bipolar Depression in Adolescents
The purpose of the study is to see if the investigational medication uridine reduces depression symptoms in adolescents with bipolar disorder. Uridine is a naturally occurring chemical that is made by the human liver.
- Trial name
- NCT00841269
- Testing
- Uridine
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 42 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Utah
Hypothyroidism, Anesthesia, General
Effect of Brain GABA Metabolite Amount to Propofol Utilisation Under TIVA in Hypothyroid Patient
Introduction: GABAergic synaptic transmigration in the anterior cingulate (ACC) cortex of hypothyroid rats has been demonstrated by electrophysiologic recordings.
- Conditions
- Hypothyroidism, Anesthesia, General, Propofol Dosage, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- Trial name
- BrainGABA (NCT06649318)
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Duzce University
End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD)
Intracellular Phosphate Concentration Evolution During Hemodialysis by MR Spectroscopy
End-stage renal disease is associated with hyperphosphatemia due to a decrease of renal phosphate excretion. This hyperphosphatemia is associated with an increase of cardiovascular risk and mortality.
- Trial name
- CIPHEMO (NCT03119818)
- Testing
- Phosphorus (31P) magnetic resonance spectroscopy, Hemodialysis
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 11 people
- Sponsor
- Hospices Civils de Lyon
Brain Tumor
Pilot Study Effect of Sulfasalazine on Glutamate Levels by(Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy)MRS in Patients With Glioma
The main purpose of this part of the study is to determine the Central Nervous System bioavailability of sulfasalazine.
- Trial name
- NCT01577966
- Testing
- Sulfasalazine
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 9 people
- Sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis
Gray Matter Demyelination in Primary Progressive MS at 7T
Progressive-onset multiple sclerosis (PPMS) occurs in about 15% of all people living with MS. PPMS remains understudied, and most disease-modifying treatments are ineffective for PPMS.
- Trial name
- NCT04977622
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance
Breast Cancer
Monitoring Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy by the Use of Breast Proton MR Spectroscopy
This study is being done to evaluate if MR spectroscopy will give us more information about whether or not your chemotherapy will work for you.
- Trial name
- NCT00580086
- Testing
- MR spectroscopy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 19 people
- Sponsor
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Central Cord Syndrome
The Natural History of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury Using fMRI, MRS and DTI
Traumatic spinal cord injury is a common injury to the spine and can lead to a clinical syndrome called central cord syndrome (CCS).
- Trial name
- NCT00790361
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's