Skip to content
Bored Studies
RecruitingAccepts healthy volunteers

Magnetic Resonance Elastography as a Method to Estimate Stiffness of Soft Tissues

Arunark Kolipaka · NCT01757730

View Study & Apply (opens in a new tab)

Opens the official ClinicalTrials.gov record, with the study team’s contacts. Bored Studies doesn’t enroll anyone.

Key facts

Compensation
Not posted. Ask the study team before screening.
Who can join
Ages 18+ · All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Study type
Observational
Target enrollment
1000
US sites recruiting
1
Study start
March 2012
Record last updated
October 21, 2026

Status re-checked against ClinicalTrials.gov within the last 12 hours.

What the study is about

Magnetic resonance elastography is a novel non-invasive MRI technique to obtain stiffness of soft tissues such as liver, heart, kidneys, etc. In this imaging technique a person is laid in an MR scanner and a paddle (plastic drum) is put on the area of interest to send sound vibration via a speaker placed outside the scan room which is connecting plastic drum via a plastic tube. These vibrations are scanned using MRI to estimate the stiffness of soft tissues such as liver, heart, kidneys, breast etc.

Conditions: Heart Failure; Liver Fibrosis; Cardiac Transplant Rejection; Aortic Aneurysms

Eligibility criteria

Copied from the official record. The study team makes the final decision at screening.

Show full criteria

Inclusion Criteria

Any participant 18 years or older and are MR safe.

Exclusion Criteria

That study participants will be excluded if they have any unapproved metal in their bodies, or if the volunteers are pregnant or possible of becoming pregnant. Also if the participants are claustrophobic.

Recruiting US locations

  • The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

    Columbus, OH 43210

    Site contact: Kristin L Thompson, B.S. · 614-366-5429 · Kristin.Thompson@osumc.edu

Study contacts (from the official record)

  • Arunark Kolipaka · 614-366-0268 · arunark.kolipaka@osumc.edu
  • Kristin L Thompson, B.S. · 614-366-5429 · Kristin.Thompson@osumc.edu
All heart & blood pressure studies in Ohio →
Magnetic Resonance Elastography as a Method to Estimate Stiffness… (NCT01757730) | Bored Studies