Functional MRI and objective measurement of pain

Anyone had fMRI or signed up for the fMRI clinical trials?

Attorneys are lining up for litigation with this new technology and many legal debates are in progress.

Here are some recent news and activites on fMRI to show the difference between standard MRI and using the same machine for extra powerful processing (new computers and software on the old instruments):

  1. http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT00528346

Treatment Of Chronic Pain Using Real Time fMRI

2. http://www.appliedfmri.org/pain_measurement.htm

Pain Measurement

3. http://snapl.stanford.edu/research/rtfmri.html

Stanford School of Medicine on fMRI and chronic pain

4. http://www.narcis.nl/research/RecordID/OND1332049/Language/en/

Validation of the use of fMRI as an objective measure in pain in patients...

5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_magnetic_resonance_imaging

Functional magnetic resonance imaging

And general news on activities:

1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17325514

Imaging human cerebral pain modulation by dose-dependent opioid analgesia: a positron emission tomography activation study using remifentanil

2. PowerPoint Presentation - University of Warwick

www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic

fMRI color slide show

3. http://users.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~jon/IASP-brooks-fMRI.pdf

fMRI measurement of capsaicin efficacy for pain treatment

4. http://www.brainmapping.org/MarkCohen/research/MLINI2011.pdf

fMRI at UCLA

a. http://jn.physiology.org/content/91/6/2723.full.pdf

FMRI Measurement of CNS Responses to Naloxone

b. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17178235

A simultaneous EEG-fMRI study of painful electric stimulation

c. BOLD fMRI - Duke University

FMRI – Week 6 – BOLD fMRI Scott Huettel, Duke University ... long-term accumulation); Cause headaches, nausea, pain at injection ... Examined signal from tubes of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood as measured using gradient- echo and ...

www.biac.duke.edu/education/courses/fall07/fmri/handout... www.biac.duke.edu/education/courses/fall07/fmri/handouts/2007_Week6_BOLD.ppt

d. http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01515540

Brain Imaging of Lidoderm for Chronic Back Pain

This study has been completed.

Study NCT01515540 Information provided by Northwestern University

First Received: January 18, 2012 Last Updated: January 23, 2012

No Study Results Posted on ClinicalTrials.gov for this Study

e. http://www.uvm.edu/~cnru/?Page=studies/mrifacility.php

MRI Facility Resources, University of Vermont

Nice piece of research, Ronald. I will try to create time to read the references you have posted.

Regards, Red