Entire-body PET Scans for Multiple Sclerosis

Recruiting now · Early Phase 1

Conditions studied: Multiple Sclerosis

In brief

To evaluate whether an entire-body positron emission tomography (PET) scanner can be exploited to improve evaluation, monitoring and measurement of both peripheral and central demyelination in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04390009

Run by

Brain Health Alliance

People needed

20

Starts

2024-09-30

Expected to finish

2025-12-30

Last updated by the study team

2025-01-07

Who can join

Age: 25 and older, up to 55. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Multiple sclerosis (MS) patients diagnosed by a credentialed neurologist experienced with care of multiple sclerosis patients.
• Normal healthy subjects.
• Willing and able to lie motionless on the PET-CT scanner bed for at least 10 minutes and up to 20 minutes for the duration of the PET-CT medical imaging scan.

You may not qualify if…

• Any additional complicating medical illness other than MS including any other neuropsychiatric illness unrelated to MS diagnosed prior to the onset of initial symptoms of MS.
• Pregnancy or breast feeding.
• Diabetes or other metabolic-endocrine disorders.
• Any known concomitant acute infection.
• History of metastatic or locally invasive cancer.
• Recent surgery, chemotherapy or radiation therapy.

Where it is running

• Brain Health Alliance — Ladera Ranch, California, United States (enrolling)

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