MRI Study IRB Procedures

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IRB

At Texas A&M, MRI studies are reviewed by full board, which meets monthly. Applications are due about a month before the meeting. The schedule of meetings is available here.

Personnel

Techs (i.e., Vidya) need to be added to study personnel.

Consent

The Research Compliance office has several templates for consent forms available here. These templates don’t contain language regarding data sharing, which is becoming the norm for the MRI community. There’s an excellent discussion of data sharing available here, including a template for a consent that allows for permissive data sharing. The Texas A&M IRB has approved permissive data sharing language. Data must be de-identified before sharing, including scrubbing the dicom headers for identifying information and elimination of identifying facial/dental features. There are easy to use tools available for doing so anonymization tools.