Clinical trials: Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound
Sickle Cell Disease, Sickle Cell Anemia
Microvascular Blood Flow in Sickle Cell Anemia
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited blood disorder that causes the red blood cells to change their shape from a round shape to a half-moon/crescent or sickled shape.
- Trial name
- NCT01566890
- Testing
- regadenoson infusion with contrast-enhanced ultrasound, contrast-enhanced ultrasound
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 91 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Versiti Blood Health
Urinary Tract Infection, Vesicoureteral Reflux
Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound for Evaluation of Reflux Nephropathy
The study will be evaluating the efficacy and safety of a contrast drug in pediatric renal ultrasound.
- Trial name
- NCT02786810
- Testing
- Sulfur hexafluoride type-a lipid microspheres
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 10 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Tennessee
Hematoma
Utility of Real-Time Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) in the Evaluation of Soft Tissue Hematomas
Traumatic and non-traumatic soft tissue hematomas are frequently encountered in the acute care setting. The incidence of these hematomas appears to be on the rise secondary to the increased use of anticoagulants among older…
- Trial name
- CEUS (NCT03357081)
- Testing
- CEUS or Contrast enhanced Ultrasound
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 16 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Mayo Clinic
Chronic Kidney Disease, Cystic Kidney Disease
Contrast-enhanced Ultrasound of the Kidney
The purpose of this research study is to evaluate contrast-enhanced ultrasound for kidney malignancies
- Trial name
- CEUS-CKD (NCT02684435)
- Testing
- Perflutren lipid microsphere
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 63 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Obesity
Microvascular Flow Assessment Repeatability Study: The MARS Study
The purpose of this study is to test a method of imaging (taking a picture) of the abdomen (belly), neck, thigh and calf (lower leg) areas of the body, using ultrasound along with a drug which makes the pictures look clearer.
- Trial name
- MARS (NCT01242020)
- Testing
- Perflutren Lipid Microsphere Injectable Suspension
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 6 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Takayasu's Arteritis, Giant Cell Arteritis
Carotid Artery Neovascularization in Takayasu's and Giant Cell Arteritis
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the ability of contrast enhanced carotid ultrasound to serve as an indicator of disease activity in patients with Takayasu's arteritis or Giant Cell arteritis and to determine if patients…
- Conditions
- Takayasu's Arteritis, Giant Cell Arteritis, Arteritis, Vasculitis
- Trial name
- NCT01795456
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 7 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The Cleveland Clinic
Prostate Cancer
Prostate Cancer Detection Rate of Targeted Biopsies With PCaVision
The primary objective is to demonstrate non-inferiority of the detection rate of clinically significant prostate cancer (csPCa) in targeted biopsies based on PCaVision imaging (PCaVision pathway) in comparison with the detection…
- Trial name
- NCT06281769
- Testing
- 3D multi-parametric ultrasound targeted biopsy pathway using PcaVision, MRI targeted biopsy pathway
- Where
- 5 sites in Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 467 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Academisch Medisch Centrum - Universiteit van Amsterdam (AMC-UvA)
Early Primary Breast Cancer
KVUS at Neoadjuvant CTx of Breast Cancer
Effect of the contrast-enhanced diagnostic ultrasound during neoadjuvant chemotherapy of breast cancer on the achieved tumor size reduction and tolerability of chemotherapy
- Trial name
- NCT03385200
- Testing
- SonoVue
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- RWTH Aachen University
Abdominal Injuries, Physical Abuse
Effectiveness of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound
The purpose of the study is to generate pilot data describing test characteristics of contrast enhanced ultrasound in young children with concern for abdominal trauma.
- Conditions
- Abdominal Injuries, Physical Abuse, Accidental Fall, Motor Vehicle Injury
- Trial name
- NCT03473249
- Testing
- Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound using Lumason
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 120 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Chronic Renal Failure, Healthy Controls
Gender Differences in Renal Functioning and Disease
The purpose of the GenderBOLD study is to shed light on the mechanisms responsible for women's lower susceptibility to developing and progressing chronic renal disease, using modern imaging techniques, and applying different…
- Trial name
- GenderBOLD (NCT04085094)
- Testing
- high-salt diet (V1) and low salt diet (V2), Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS), functional MRI
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 98 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois
Hypertension,Essential
Brain BOLD fMRI in Hypertensive and Normotensive Participants
This study will explore the brainstem activity in response to stress in hypertensive patients and normotensive subjects. In addition, it will evaluate if the response in hypertensive patients can be modulated by blocking the…
- Trial name
- BRAIrdN (NCT03473275)
- Testing
- Cold Pressor test, PinPrick test
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 84 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois
Fibromuscular Dysplasia of Arteries, Segmental Arterial Mediolysis
Using Ultrasonography, Shear Wave Elastography, Strain Imaging, and 3-D Volume Ultrasonography on Cardiovascular Disease
The researchers are trying to see whether contrast-enhanced ultrasonography, shear wave elastography, strain imaging, and 3-D volume ultrasonography improves arterial wall visualization and identifies arterial elastic properties…
- Conditions
- Fibromuscular Dysplasia of Arteries, Segmental Arterial Mediolysis, Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection, Atherosclerosis of Artery
- Trial name
- NCT03335020
- Testing
- Shear Wave Elastography, Pulse Wave Imaging, Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Mayo Clinic
Breast Cancer, Kidney Neoplasms
Translation of Acoustic Angiography: Contrast Enhanced Super Resolution (CESR) Imaging
This is a 4-arm, single-center study involving 40 participants. Ten healthy volunteers will be enrolled for system imaging optimization, and thirty (30) patients with previously identified lesions in the breast, liver, or…
- Conditions
- Breast Cancer, Kidney Neoplasms, Liver Neoplasms
- Trial name
- NCT07225114
- Testing
- contrast agent perflutren lipid, Ultrasound Imaging
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Kidney Injury, Acute, Perfusion Imaging
Validation of Renal Perfusion CEUS Against MRI, and Its Application in Acute Kidney Injury
The purposes of this study is 1. To establish the validity of CEUS to measure renal perfusion by comparing it against ASL-MRI in young and older healthy volunteers, and generate a normative dataset of CEUS measures of renal…
- Conditions
- Kidney Injury, Acute, Perfusion Imaging, Ultrasonography, Kidney Diseases
- Trial name
- NCT04181281
- Testing
- Contrast enhanced ultrasound, Arterial Spin Labelling -Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Nottingham
Deep Venous Thrombosis
Venous Thrombus Investigation With Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging
Background: During the repair process of deep venous thrombosis, capillary formation is seen from day 18 to day 25. Contrast agent investigation is well known to detect small vessels in arterial disease.
- Trial name
- NCT00677846
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 31 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital Freiburg
Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer Screening With Diffusion-weighted MRI in Women at High Risk for Breast Cancer
A prospective observational multicenter study to compare the outcome of breast cancer surveillance using mammography, breast US, contrast-enhanced MRI, and diffusion-weighted MR imaging (DWI) as a screening tool, in the high-risk…
- Trial name
- NCT03835897
- Where
- South Korea
- Volunteers
- 890 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Seoul National University Hospital
Intestinal GVHD, Neutropenic Enterocolitis
Non-invasive Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound Sonography in Intestinal Acute Graft-vs-Host Disease
Intestinal acute graft-vs-host disease (GVHD) is a life-threatening complication after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation. Non-invasive diagnostic procedures are still lacking and diagnosis is difficult.
- Trial name
- NCT01699516
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 32 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pisa
Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair
Contrast Ultrasound in the Surveillance of Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair
The purpose of this study is to support the suspected expectation that Contrast enhanced Ultrasound (CUS) detects all endoleaks that have been detected by Computed Tomography (CT), and also find a number of leaks missed by CT.
- Trial name
- NCT01022892
- Volunteers
- 140 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Crohn Disease, Food Allergy
Contrast-enhanced Ultrasound in Patients With Crohn´s Disease and Food Allergy
The purpose of this study is to investigate differences of the bowel wall thickness visible in conventional ultrasound and bowel perfusion using quantitative Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound in patients with Crohn´s disease in…
- Trial name
- NCT05768971
- Testing
- Mild diet, Provocative diet
- Volunteers
- 48 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Type1diabetes, Insulitis
Pancreas Ultrasound Imaging in type1 Diabetes
The overall goal of this study is to develop and test a novel method involving ultrasound imaging, in order to detect the development of type 1 diabetes.
- Conditions
- Type1diabetes, Insulitis, Pancreas Inflamed
- Trial name
- NCT05482321
- Testing
- Definity Suspension for Injection
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Colorado, Denver