The Clinical Imaging Core Service Center was developed in 2010 jointly between the Department of Radiology and the Abramson Cancer Center to support cancer clinical trials. Since then it has evolved to provided services throughout the Perelman School of Medicine. The core is divided into three categories:
- RADCORE
- Tumor Response Assessment Core (TRAC)
- Image Guided Biopsy Service
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RADCORE
RADCORE is staffed by dedicated clinical research professionals with a wide range of expertise of imaging based clinical research protocols. These professionals include: project managers, clinical research coordinators, regulatory specialists and imaging management specialists. The services we provide range from consultation through fully management of research protocols. The team also includes our dedicated Radiology IND/IDE support office.
RADCORE Services
- Consultation
- Project management
- Budget development, negotiation and submission through Penn systems
- Patient management: recruitment, enrollment, coordinating research visits
- Imaging management: anonymization and upload to sponsors
- Training and oversight
Our goal is to provide investigators within radiology as well as using radiology services support to successful run their research project.
Tumor Response Assessment Core (TRAC)
TRAC is staffed by a core team of radiologists skilled in evaluating tumor response imaging assessments for patients enrolled in cancer clinical trials being conducted at Penn Medicine.
Image Guided Biopsy Service
The Image guided biopsy service is one out of four services included in the Abramson Cancer Center Biorepository shared core established in 2020. The service at Penn Radiology is staffed by an interventional radiologist, clinical research coordinator and technical lead who provide both consultative as well as image guided biopsy service to obtain both clinical and research samples for investigators who are developing their own clinical trials, as well as working on sponsored clinical trials. These services will include interventional radiology consultation and development of biopsy protocols and plans together with ABR staff, coordination of tissue collection.
To broaden the scope, we have opened up this service to non-cancer related projects across the University of Pennsylvania.