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WithdrawnNCT06462924Updated Feb 5, 2025

Feasibility of Gadolinium Contrast Reduced Brain MRI: the Potential of Deep Learning

A Phase 1 interventional study of DeepGad in Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning, sponsored by DeepMeds. Withdrawn. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 80 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-02-05.

Sponsored by DeepMeds · Phase 1, Interventional, and Diagnostic

Why this study was withdrawn
No participants enrolled
Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
0
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 80 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

MRI scans were performed using 3 different 1.5T scanners with an eight-channel head coils. Following a 3D pre-contrast T1w scan, a low-dose contrast-enhanced 3D T1w scan was obtained using 20% (0.02 mmol/kg) of the standard dosage of gadoterate meglumine.

The subjects were immediately administered the remaining 80% (0.08 mmol/kg) of the contrast agent to reach the standard dose of 0.1 mmol/kg, which served as a training ground truth for further quantitative assessment. All three acquisitions were performed during a single imaging session, with no additional gadolinium dose administered above the standard protocol.

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Conditions studied

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Deep Learning
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In context

Lead sponsor

This is the only study on the registry with DeepMeds as lead sponsor.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 80 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

  1. Clinical indications for imaging with a contrast-enhanced 3D-T1w MRI sequence including tumor suspicion, postoperative tumor follow-up, multiple sclerosis, routine brain imaging, etc.,
  2. no plan for dynamic contrast administration or deviation from the standard dose of 0.1 mmol/kg body weight (e.g., sella imaging, magnetic resonance angiography),
  3. no clinical contraindications to imaging prolongation (i.e., emergency, poor patient condition).

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. prominent image artifacts,
  2. incomplete study sequences (e.g., early termination)
  3. errors related to contrast agent administration.
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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Diagnostic
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
0 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    DeepGad

    The dataset comprises a total of 500 patients, with 300 patients used for model training and 200 patients reserved for model testing. Each patient had approximately 350 2D brain slices of the coregistered 3D volumes excluding the five slices at the base and five slices at the top of the acquired volume due to their low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). For robustness and to avoid overfitting, standard DL data augmentation techniques consisting of eight types of transformations were applied to each case in the training set.

    Device: DeepGad

Interventions

  • DeviceDeepGad

    Using the pre-contrast and low-dose Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance (CE-MRI) images as input and the true full-dose CE-MRI images as the ground truth. the Cycle GAN deep network (DeepGad), was trained to reconstruct the full-dose CE-MRI images from low-dose CE-MRI images.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Image quality

    Image quality using a 5-point Likert scale covering 1 (none), 2 (poor), 3 (moderate), 4 (good), and 5(excellent) ratings

    Time frame: 1 Day After MRI session

  2. Vessel conspicuity

    (0) no normal vessels observed, (1) significant decrease in conspicuity with potential impact on diagnosis, (2) mild decrease in conspicuity with unlikely impact on diagnosis, (3) normal conspicuity, (4) mild increase in conspicuity with unlikely impact on diagnosis, and (5) significant increase in conspicuity with potential impact on diagnosis.

    Time frame: 1 Day After MRI session

Secondary outcomes

  1. Enhancement pattern

    (a) no enhancement, (b) homogeneous enhancement, (c) heterogeneous enhancement, (d) ring enhancement, (e) linear enhancement, and (f) other enhancement.

    Time frame: 1 Day After MRI session

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Study locations

No study locations are listed for this record.

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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Feb 5, 2025, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT06462924
Lead sponsor
DeepMeds
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jun 17, 2024
Start date
Aug 30, 2024 (estimated)
Primary completion
Sep 1, 2024 (estimated)
Completion
Sep 15, 2024 (estimated)
Last update
Feb 5, 2025

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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