Procurement Summary
Country: USA
Summary: Mri Scans
Deadline: 24 May 2018
Posting Date: 16 May 2018
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Notice Type: Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 23310228
Document Ref. No.: NICHD201800040
Competition: ICB
Financier: Self Financed
Purchaser Ownership: -
Tender Value: Refer Document
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Department of health and human services, eunice kennedy shriver, national institute of child health and human development, 6710b rockledge drive, room 1155a, bethesda, md 20817. National institute of diabetes and digestive kidney diseases (niddk) plans to procure on a sole source basis with mayo clinic, 13400 e shea boulevard, scottsdale, az 85259 for 105 magnetic resonance imaging (mri) scans to search for evidence of renal and hepatic fibrosis, assess intrarenal iron content, and to obtain measures of cortical and total renal volume of both kidneys. The scans will be performed by dr. Alvin silva on a general electric 3t scanner with a 32-channel head coil in the imaging center at mayo clinic hospital in phoenix and will be interpreted by dr. Richard ehman at the mayo clinic in rochester.
The raw imaging data generated from these scans will be delivered electronically on a dvd to dr. Robert nelson in the chronic kidney disease section in phoenix, arizona. A clinical interpretation of the findings on each participant will also be provided. The measurements will be performed, and the data delivered beginning in april 2018 and continuing till the 105 scans are completed.
We are studying the course and determinants of diabetic kidney disease in pima indians with type 2 diabetes. The project includes state-of-the-art measurements of kidney structure and function. Recent advances in imaging of the kidney may make it possible to assess kidney structure without obtaining a kidney biopsy. In this study, we intend to compare kidney images obtained using magnetic resonance imaging with the gold standard morphometric measurements obtained from kidney tissue at biopsy. Since participants with type 2 diabetes are also at greater risk of liver fibrosis linked to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, we also want to examine participants for the presence of liver fibrosis using magnetic resonance elastography.
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