Imaging Heart Muscle Tissue With New MRI Techniques
Tests new MRI scans to examine heart muscle in adults with heart disease.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Medical University of South Carolina
- Where
- Charleston, United StatesSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Quantitative Cardiac Parametric Mapping
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 240 people, planned
- Started
- 20 Jun 2014
- Expected to end
- Dec 2026
- Type of study
- Interventional
- Treatments tested
- Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) imaging techniques
- Record updated
- 5 November 2025
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for adults who have, or may have, a heart muscle disease and were already referred for a heart MRI scan. The trial tests new fast MRI methods to study heart tissue.
- Age
- 18 to 90 years
- Sex
- All sexes can join.
- Disease stage
- Heart muscle disease, known or suspected: reduced blood flow or heart attack, thickened heart muscle (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy), infiltrative cardiomyopathy, or inflammation of the heart muscle (myocarditis).
Main reasons for not taking part
- Implanted device or condition that makes an MRI scan unsafe
- Acute psychiatric disorder or cognitive impairment
- Using or dependent on substances of abuse
- Allergy to MRI contrast agents
- Acute unstable condition
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Subject must be 18-90 years of age
- Subject must be previously diagnosed with or suspected to have one of the following conditions
- Myocardial ischemia or infarction (group 1)
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (group 2)
- Infiltrative cardiomyopathy (group 3)
- Myocarditis (group 4)
- Subject must have been referred for a clinically indicated CMR
Who cannot take part
- Subject has previously entered this study
- Subject has any implanted device or condition in which an MR scan would be contraindicated
- Subject has an acute psychiatric disorder or is cognitively impaired
- Subject has an allergy against MRI contrast agents
- Subject is in acute unstable condition
- Subject is using or is dependent on substances of abuse
- Subject is unwilling to comply with the requirements of the protocol
Check if you might fit
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 18 and 90 years old?
Where in United States
- Medical University of South CarolinaCharleston, United StatesContact: John Martinez, MSTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The overall goal of this project is to evaluate the clinical potential of fast quantitative myocardial tissue characterization using recently emerged Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (CMR) techniques to aid the diagnosis, treatment, and follow up of patients with myocardial diseases, such as ischemic heart disease, cardiomyopathies, and myocarditis.
The group in the trial
- Additional 5 minute research MR scan of heart.Treatment being tested
The purpose of this is to evaluate new, faster MR scans
Treatment: Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) imaging techniques
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Novel Magnetic Resonance Imaging Techniques for Quantitative Cardiac Parametric Mapping
- Plain-language title
- Imaging Heart Muscle Tissue With New MRI TechniquesGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 12 November 2026.
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT02855554, who can take part
- Record updated
- 5 November 2025