VUMC Clinical Trials Radiology Support Core

Overview of Services

The VUMC Clinical Trials Radiology Support Core provides administrative imaging support services to the Vanderbilt clinical trials community. The Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences has made a broad set of resources available for clinical trial protocol review, study design consultation, imaging acquisition, and post-processing. In order to provide a wide range of imaging support to clinical trials, our team consists of personnel from each imaging modality. Our collaborative study review processes helps to ensure more accurate billing of study procedures and performance of appropriate imaging.

Services include the following:

• Review of study protocol and imaging guidelines for feasibility and billing determination
• Consultation on scientific merit and imaging correlatives
• Resolution of protocol implementation issues with radiologists, physicists, study coordinators and sponsors
• Close collaboration with VUMC Finance/CTBC regarding exam codes and billing
• Loading specialized (i.e., non-standard of care) imaging protocols onto scanners
• Creation of study-specific Clinical Trials Imaging Instructions (CTII) forms
• Completion of sponsor required training
• *Phantom or volunteer scanning for clinical trial qualification
• Completion of sponsor required documents for clinical trial qualification
• Participation in Site Initiation Visits if required by sponsor
• Resolution of sponsor queries related to image acquisition
• Image de-identification and archival to CD/DVD for transmission to sponsor
• Completion of imaging data transmittal forms
• **Transmittal of image data via ftp to study coordinators or study sponsors

*Please visit our website: https://www.vumc.org/radiology-support-core,  for further information regarding phantom or cadaver scanning for internal research projects.

**Electronic submission of image data has very limited availability, please e-mail radiologysupportcore@vanderbilt.edu for further information.

Leadership:

Richard Abramson, M.D.
Core Medical Director

Richard Pierce
Core Administrator

Rebekah Smith, BS, CNMT, NCT
Core Manager
E-mail: radiologysupportcore@vumc.org

Location:

2525 West West End Ave., 14th Floor
Nashville, TN 37203

Link:

Visit our website for more information about our core: https://www.vumc.org/radiology-support-core/