RecruitingNot ApplicableNCT04458883

The Next Leap in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging:Cycling the Field

The Next Leap in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging:Cycling the Field The TITAN Study

Sponsor

University of Aberdeen

Enrollment

150 participants

Start Date

Aug 1, 2020

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Conditions

Myocardial Infarction

Summary

The main aim of the study is to build and test a cardiac-specific coil purposely assembled in house to suit the FFC-MRI whole-body prototype and to test if it could be used for clinical cardiac scans in human subject populations.

Eligibility

Min Age: 20 Years

Inclusion Criteria3

Participant who is willing and able to give informed consent for participation in the study
Healthy volunteers willing to give informed consent for participation in the study
Patients diagnosed with a previous myocardial infarction

Exclusion Criteria7

Unwillingness to participate
Claustrophobia
Contraindication to MRI scanning such as implantable cardiac devices
Participants who have had a previous myocardial infarction in the past of which they may not be aware and this is discovered whilst being scanned on the 3T MRI scanner, or who may have any other cardiology condition that they were previously unaware will not be included in the healthy control group, even if they present themselves to us as "healthy" at the time of the study visit
Pregnancy
Body habitus that may preclude comfortable positioning of the volunteer in either of the MRI scanners (>50cm in diameter)
Participants with abnormal kidney function that will preclude them from receiving a contrast agent