The Spiral MRI Study

MRI Technology for Greater Efficiency and Improved Value

The goal of this clinical trial is to find out if new Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) computer software will:

• help make scans and exams faster
• reduce artifacts
• make MRI easier to understand
• allow technicians to focus more on the participant and less on the scanner

Participants will complete one brain MRI imaging session, lasting about 60 minutes.

The overall goal of this application is to design technologies that improve the value of MRI, and specifically mitigate many of the complications that negatively impact this value. The scope of MRI value is vast, but can be expressed by efficiency (high patient throughput and consistent image quality), accessibility (better scope of use and equity of availability), safety, and user experience for the patient, technologist, and interpreting physician.

Healthy Controls Inclusion Criteria:

• Adults at least 18 years
• Able to provide written informed consent on their own behalf

Brain MR Inclusion Criteria:

• Adults at least 18 years
• Able to provide written informed consent on their own behalf
• Scheduled for standard of care brain MRI

Exclusion Criteria (ALL):

• Unable or unwilling to provide informed consent
• Contraindication(s) to or inability to undergo MRI
• Currently pregnant
• Participants requiring intravenous (IV) conscious sedation for imaging are not eligible; participants requiring mild, oral anxiolytics for the clinical MRI will be allowed as long as the following criteria are met:
• participant has their own prescription for the medication
• informed consent process is conducted prior to the self-administration of the medication
• they come to the research visit with a driver