Technology

Unlock your potential with technology.

ACR Image Metrix™ understands how critical the integration of technology is to your clinical trial. For that reason, ACR Image Metrix’ Clinical Trials Management System (CTMS) and our proprietary image management system, TRIAD-OA™, are used to obtain, track and manage critical, study-specific data. Each study has its own Web address where case reports, study manuals, protocols and other study documents reside. The portals are customized for each project, with security layered into each section. Because images and image case report forms are credited to the calendar upon receipt, Metrix TM, our CTMS system, can run delinquency reports on demand or on a predetermined schedule to keep your study on track. Designed to interface with other informatics initiatives, our technology is key to helping
you realize your clinical trial goals.

Software Validation
Guidance for Industry: Computerized Systems Used in Clinical Investigations applies to computerized systems containing any data relied on to support a marketing application. This includes images and the workstations on which the images are viewed. These systems must be validated, and ACR Image Metrix maintains strict adherence to GCP validation principles. While the device manufacturers are responsible for meeting FDA requirements for software development, using the device in a clinical trial requires user testing/performance qualification based upon the work that will be done at that workstation.

Performance Metrics
Our experience, based on over 9 years of working with American College of Radiology Imaging Network^® (ACRIN^®) on over hundreds of imaging trials and involving more than 75,000 subjects, is unsurpassed. As a result, no one can provide a greater depth and breadth of specific therapeutic and modality experience or more flexibility in serving the needs of customers. The following metrics, developed by the Metrics Champion Consortium, are available from ACR Image Metrix on a scheduled basis as determined by the sponsor needs. Imaging Performance Metrics v 1.0 (Imaging Metrics Champion Consortium).

When you select ACR Image Metrix as your imaging partner, your development project will receive rigorous attention for quality control and adherence to GCP principles. Our operational technology is SOP-driven from the initial validation to image acquisition and interpretation. The performance metrics we observe and the CTMS we utilize provide your program the key to seamless imaging integration.

Imaging and Clinical Research Experts
We offer a unique network of experts in all disease areas and imaging modalities. With ACR Image Metrix as your imaging partner, you have an industry leader in the use of imaging in drug development, with extensive experience in oncology, CNS, cardiovascular and musculoskeletal diseases. Our imaging clinical and imaging research professionals include our chief scientific officer, Theodore E. Keats Professor of Radiology and professor of health evaluation sciences at the University of Virginia, Dr. Bruce Hillman; Mike Morales, our general manager with over 20 years of CRO experience; Brenda Young, senior director of clinical operations, who has 26 years of clinical experience, and Dr. Mehdi Adineh, our scientific director of the imaging core laboratory, who has more than 15 years experience in applications of multi-modality image acquisition and processing for various stages of clinical trials. ACR Image Metrix helps you unlock the potential of imaging in your drug development program.

We have extensive access to expert blinded interpreters through the vast experience of the ACR Clinical Research Center in conducting such trials. Sponsors can take advantage of our relationships or suggest blinded interpreters with whom they have worked with in the past.