Table 2.
Inclusion and exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria | Exclusion criteria | |
Healthy volunteers | Written informed consent No contra-indication to MRI 40 years or above in age (attempts will be made to include similar age range as myeloma patients) No known significant illness No known metallic implant |
Significant artefact on scan Corrupted scan data |
Patients in phases 1 and 2 | Patient with confirmed myeloma with WB-MRI scan previously performed as part of clinical care. Sufficient imaging and clinical data for the expert reference panel to categorise the WB-MRI scan as:
Patients may be included if the pattern of disease is a combination of focal, diffuse and/or extra-medullary. |
Corrupted WB-MRI scan data. Insufficient clinical data to allow the expert reference panel to categorise the scan. |
Patients in phase 3 | Training set: phase 1 active disease cases and their post-treatment scans from phase 2. Validation set: from iTIMM study. Written informed consent for iTIMM study All patients over the age of 18 with multiple myeloma planned for autograft. |
Corrupted scan data. MRI incompatible metal implants Claustrophobia Diagnosis of other malignancy within 5 years |
iTIMM, Image-guided Theranostics in Multiple Myeloma; WB-MRI, Whole-Body Magnetic Resonance Imaging.