SPIO-enhanced MRI in Oral Cancer for Sentinel Lymph Node Identification

Arms (1)

1. type

   EXPERIMENTAL

   label

   cT1-2N0M0 oral cancer patients

   description

   Patients undergo routine sentinel lymph node procedure (99mTc injection, planar imaging, SPECT-CT and surgery) for clinical purposes. After 99mTc injections and imaging has been executed peritumoral SPIO injections are performed by a medical doctor. A T2\*-weighted iron sensitive MRI scan is made 1 hour later.

   interventionNames

   1. Diagnostic Test: SPIO-enhanced MRI

Primary outcomes (1)

1. measure

   MR (artefact) finetuning for optimization of SPIO dose and timing of MRI

   timeFrame

   2 months

   description

   The first two patients will receive a dose of 0.012 ml SPIO. MR-images will be assessed. If this dose provides satisfactory MR-images (good visualization of lymph nodes without disturbing artefacts), subsequent patients will receive the same dose. If the artefact is too large, the dose will be decreased. If visualization is poor, the dose will be increased. The procedure will be repeated with adjusted doses each time in two patients until satisfactory MR-images are obtained. The investigators have established timing of MRI 1 hour after SPIO injection. It is assumed that after this time interval SPIO particles have had sufficient time to migrate to the SNs and to be taken up. However, if this interval appears to be too long because 'too many' SNs are visualized the time interval will be shortened. If this interval appears to be too short since no or too little SNs are visualized because SPIO uptake has not taken place yet, the time interval will be lengthened.