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Muscle Health Measurements Using Electrical Impedance Myography
Sponsor: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Summary
This study is being done to further develop a device, the mScan, to measure muscle health as compared to measurements of muscle health using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging). This device is held against the skin and uses Electrical Impedance Myography (EIM). EIM uses a very small, noninvasive (e.g. no needles), brief (about 6 seconds), and painless electrical current to measure the muscle. The investigators will look at how the mScan predicts the muscle measurements seen on MRI in people with and without muscle disease. The investigators hope that this can be used in the future as a quick, convenient and less time-consuming way than MRI to assess muscle health. This could be used to measure how well treatments for different muscle disorders are working over a period of time.
Official title: Convenient Quantification of Myopathic Change in Muscle Via Electrical Impedance Myography
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - 89 Years
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
150
Start Date
2025-04-09
Completion Date
2027-09
Last Updated
2026-04-03
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Conditions
Interventions
Electrical Impedance Myography
EIM is an impedance-based technology in which an imperceptible, high-, multi-frequency (e.g., 1 kHz to 10 MHz) electrical current is applied across two electrodes; the resulting voltage signals are measured across two sense electrodes
Locations (1)
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts, United States