NCT00748254Recruiting
Laser-based Photoacoustic Tomography of Human Inflammatory Arthritis
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 23 Jan 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The purpose of this feasibility study is to determine if a new emerging technology called photoacoustic tomography (PAT) can be adapted for use in humans for the detection of chronic rheumatoid arthritis.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 113 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 4 Sept 2008
- Start date
- 1 Dec 2011
- Primary completion date
- Jan 2027
- Lead sponsor
- University of Michigan
- Diseases
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- NCT number
- NCT00748254
What you commit to
- Study type: Observational
- Planned participants: 113
- From 1 Dec 2011 to the primary completion date, Jan 2027
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
Built from the registry fields of ClinicalTrials.gov. It describes the study design.
Who cannot take part
Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.
Prior treatment
- Patients who have had a contrast enhanced (with gadolinium) MRA (magnetic resonance angiography)/ or MRI within the last 3 months. (Contrast is a medication injected into a vein during a imaging examination that helps produce clearer images/pictures).
Other illness
- Patients, who have electrically, magnetically or mechanically activated implants such as heart pacemaker, magnetic surgical clips, prostheses or implanted neurological stimulator.
Lab values
- Patients with impaired renal function cannot participate in this study such as elevate creatinine clearance, patients on kidney dialysis etc.
Other
- Pregnant patients.
- Patients who is claustrophobic.
- Patients with shock hypotension or unstable low blood pressure.
- Patients with Rhabdomyolysis.
Who the study is looking for
- Men and women 18 years of age or older can participate in this study.
- Patients can participate in this study if they have had rheumatoid arthritis for more than 2 years and their rheumatologist has referred them to this study.
- Patients can participate as a healthy volunteer with a known history of rheumatoid arthritis.
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Save your city in your profile to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Universtity of Michigan Health System Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ann Arbor | United States | Recruiting |
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