Research Services
Our research services provide full-stack MRI analysis support for multi-center clinical trials and research studies across metabolic and musculoskeletal disease research.
Scientific guidance to maximize your study’s success and de-risk the drug development lifecycle.
Navigating today’s rapidly-changing diabetes and obesity treatment landscape, or the disease heterogeneity and limited precision of functional outcome measures in neuromuscular disease trials, requires a trusted partner with innovative tools that deliver precise, reproducible measurements and analytical insights from your datasets. AMRA ensures you have those tools, allowing you to put your efforts where they matter most: advancing therapies and improving lives.
Insights Biomarkers
Introducing our paradigm-shifting Muscle & Body Fat Z-Scores and Muscle & Function Composite Scores: our novel insights biomarkers add a new and deeper layer of information achieved through clever combinations of multiple imaging biomarkers and subject-specific characteristics. Tailored to serve as robust, easily-defined endpoints, designed with your clinical trial challenges and burning research questions in mind, to reveal the true impact of your intervention.
Imaging Biomarkers
Our MRI-based fat and muscle measurements help scientists and drug development teams across the metabolic and musculoskeletal clinical trial landscapes power their studies and uncover insights hidden within complex, heterogeneous study populations. Whether you’re designing your next study or interpreting its outcomes, our measures help you advance your pipeline with confidence.
55,000 +
Fat & muscle measurements
in our reference dataset
256 +
Imaging sites certified
with our protocol
200 +
Total scientific
publications
15 +
Subject-matter and
MRI biomarker experts
Clinical Research Focus Areas
From type II diabetes to obesity; sarcopenia to muscular dystrophies – we bring an extensive understanding of disease research across the metabolic and musculoskeletal fields. And we aren’t stopping there – we’re always a step ahead, so you can take big leaps forward.
Streamlined Process & Technology
Our secure, cloud-based platform makes setup effortless—so you can focus on your trials, not logistics. With a suite of detailed MRI-based fat and muscle biomarkers, we’ll help you find the right measurements to move your research forward. Don’t just take our word for it; we’ve certified over 500 sites globally with our imaging protocol
Robust Reference Population
Comprised of data collected from tens of thousands of MRI images, our unique reference datasets ensure our measurements can be contextualized for each and every clinical trial. And with over 200 publications validating our biomarkers for research use, our science is solid—so your insights are too.
How Does It Work?
Measures like BMI or single-slice imaging often overlook the complexity of individual physiology. Our standardized biomarker solutions include novel MRI-based 3D Volumetric assessments providing detailed, quantitative insights into fat distribution and muscle composition—enabling you to monitor and anticipate changes, identify fat distribution patterns, assess muscle quality, and detangle population heterogeneity. It’s a more refined approach to understanding the metabolic and musculoskeletal signatures that matter in answering your research questions.
Effortless & Cloud-Based Delivery
Our cloud-based service is established through an easy, secure set-up and data transfer process, so you can worry less about setting up and more about settling in. To get started, begin by reviewing our wide coverage of scanners to make sure you’re covered and learn more about how our site certification works.
1. Getting Started
Setup & Verification using
AMRA® Protocol
2. Scanning
Rapid MRI
3. Data Transfer
Safe & Secure
Image Transfer
4. Analysis
Automated Segmentation, Quantification & QC
5. Delivery
Body Composition
Spreadsheet
Scientific Advisory Services
You don’t need to do it alone. Maximize the success of your R&D efforts with end-to-end clinical research support, provided by our subject matter experts.
MRI Data Analytics and Consulting Services
The success of your drug candidates rely on your speed to market and compelling data for adoption. Clinical trials require significant time, costs, and energy, but with the right partner, you can maximize the success of your clinical trials and control risks during drug R&D. With AMRA, you not only have access to our MRI data analytics, global research sites, and high-precision body composition analysis, you also have a team of subject matter experts that know exactly what you need to generate robust data and propel your R&D projects to the next stage—as smoothly and as quickly as possible.
Clinical Protocol Design
Biomarker selection and implementation support offered by our team of subject matter experts – from study startup to closeout.
Exploratory Biomarkers
Discover a new way of looking at your data using our existing and upcoming MRI-based measurements.
Expert Data Analytics
Support mission-critical R&D decision-making by allowing us to help you make sense of what your trial data truly means.