NCT06550726Recruiting
High-resolution Multi-parametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Focal Epilepsy
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 3 Apr 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Patients with focal epilepsy often have diagnostic difficulties as their culprit for seizures are difficult to be picked up using conventional imaging. The current study is to investigate the utility of advanced MRI sequences on detection of subtle lesions accountable for focal epilepsy.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 66 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 5 Aug 2024
- Start date
- 1 Sept 2024
- Primary completion date
- 31 Aug 2027
- Lead sponsor
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Diseases
- Epilepsy
- NCT number
- NCT06550726
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 66
- From 1 Sept 2024 to the primary completion date, 31 Aug 2027
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Patients who are contraindicated to magnetic resonance imaging (such as due to underlying MRI incompatible metallic implants)
Other
- Patients who cannot cooperate for MRI scanning.
- Patients show are unable to provide informed consent.
Who the study is looking for
- Consecutive patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy fulfilling the following criteria -
- 1\. Diagnosis of focal epilepsy with a probable site identified, as defined by concordant results from any TWO of the following:
- Clinical seminology compatible with focal epilepsy.
- Electroencephalography pointing towards a specific site for focal epilepsy.
- Positive ictal brain scintigraphy with SPECT-CT correlation. AND 2. Previous MRI (at least one study with protocol tailored for epilepsy) which did not reveal accountable focal lesion.
- AND 3. Able to consent for MRI examination (if patient under age of 18, consent for MRI will be obtained from guardian). Patients will be provided information leaflets to read on, and written consent before taking part in this study and MRI examination.
Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gerald Choa MRI Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR China | Recruiting |
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