CT Indexes of Emphysema and Airways in Healthy Volunteers: Normal Values; Relations With Gender, Height and Weight

NCT ID: NCT02611947

Last Updated: 2015-11-23

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

87 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2010-10-31

Study Completion Date

2011-06-30

Brief Summary

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Various indexes have been proposed to quantify both pulmonary emphysema and airways disease on chest CT scans. It is unknown whether these indexes should be consider in absolute values or as compared to predicted normal values. The purposes of the present study is thus : a) to measure these indexes at CT in healthy volunteers; b) to investigate their relations with gender, height and weight.

Detailed Description

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87 healthy volunteers performed consecutively a low-dose chest CT scan and pulmonary function tests:

1. On chest CT scans, indexes reflecting pulmonary emphysema and airways measurements have been computed by using dedicated softwares. Each of our three readers performed two reading sessions.

Relative area of lung parenchyma with attenuation value less than -960 Hounsfield Units; luminal area and wall thickness in third and fourth generations airways were recorded.
2. Pulmonary function tests were performed: vital capacity, forced vital capacity , functional residual capacity, total lung capacity, residual volume, forced expiratory volume in one second, and diffusion lung capacity for carbon monoxide were recorded (either in absolute values and percentage of predicted values).

CT indexes were compared with gender, height and weight.

Conditions

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Healthy

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

CASE_ONLY

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria:

1. Aged 18 or more.
2. Never smoked.
3. No respiratory infection in the 4 weeks before the begin of the study.
4. No history of pulmonary resection.
5. No active malignancy or malignancy of any organ system within the past 5 years.

Low-dose chest CT scans

Intervention Type RADIATION

Supine chest CT scan after full inspiration. Acquisition parameters: (Topogram 35 mA 120 kV 512 mm length)

35 quality ref mAs with care-dose ON 120 kV Pitch 1.4 Rotation time 0.33 s Acquired images 64 x 0.6 mm

Interventions

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Low-dose chest CT scans

Supine chest CT scan after full inspiration. Acquisition parameters: (Topogram 35 mA 120 kV 512 mm length)

35 quality ref mAs with care-dose ON 120 kV Pitch 1.4 Rotation time 0.33 s Acquired images 64 x 0.6 mm

Intervention Type RADIATION

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Never smoked.
* No respiratory infection in the 4 weeks before the begin of the study.
* No history of pulmonary resection.
* No active malignancy or malignancy of any organ system within the past 5 years.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Erasme University Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Pierre Alain GEVENOIS, MD, PhD

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Erasme University Hospital

Locations

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Erasme University Hospital

Brussels, Brussels Capital, Belgium

Site Status

Countries

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Belgium

References

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Madani A, Zanen J, de Maertelaer V, Gevenois PA. Pulmonary emphysema: objective quantification at multi-detector row CT--comparison with macroscopic and microscopic morphometry. Radiology. 2006 Mar;238(3):1036-43. doi: 10.1148/radiol.2382042196. Epub 2006 Jan 19.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 16424242 (View on PubMed)

Madani A, De Maertelaer V, Zanen J, Gevenois PA. Pulmonary emphysema: radiation dose and section thickness at multidetector CT quantification--comparison with macroscopic and microscopic morphometry. Radiology. 2007 Apr;243(1):250-7. doi: 10.1148/radiol.2431060194.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 17392257 (View on PubMed)

Hackx M, Bankier AA, Gevenois PA. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: CT quantification of airways disease. Radiology. 2012 Oct;265(1):34-48. doi: 10.1148/radiol.12111270.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 22993219 (View on PubMed)

Hackx M, Gyssels E, Severo Garcia T, De Meulder I, Alard S, Bruyneel M, Van Muylem A, Ninane V, Gevenois PA. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: CT Quantification of Airway Dimensions, Numbers of Airways to Measure, and Effect of Bronchodilation. Radiology. 2015 Dec;277(3):853-62. doi: 10.1148/radiol.2015140949. Epub 2015 May 19.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 25989594 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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P2010/175

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id