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Entire-body PET Scans for Multiple Sclerosis

RECRUITINGEarly 1Sponsored by Brain Health Alliance
Actively Recruiting
PhaseEarly 1
SponsorBrain Health Alliance
Started2024-09-30
Est. completion2025-09-30
Eligibility
Age25 Years – 55 Years
Healthy vol.Accepted
Locations1 site
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NCT04390009

Summary

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.

Eligibility

Age: 25 Years – 55 YearsHealthy volunteers accepted
Inclusion Criteria:

* 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.

Exclusion Criteria:

* 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.

Conditions1

Multiple Sclerosis

Locations1 site

Brain Health Alliance
Ladera Ranch, California, 92694
Carl Taswell, MD, PhD949-481-3121ctaswell@brainhealthalliance.org

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