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Entire-body PET Scans for Multiple Sclerosis

Brain Health Alliance · with Center for Molecular Imaging & Therapy, Shreveport LA, Northern California PET Imaging Center, Sacramento CA · NCT04390009

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Key facts

Compensation
Not posted. Ask the study team before screening.
Who can join
Ages 25–55 · All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Study type
Interventional · Early Phase 1
Target enrollment
20
US sites recruiting
1
Study start
September 30, 2024
Record last updated
October 6, 2026

Status re-checked against ClinicalTrials.gov within the last 12 hours.

What the study is about

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.

Being studied: Entire-body PET-CT scans; Amyvid radiopharmaceutical

Conditions: Multiple Sclerosis

Eligibility criteria

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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.

Recruiting US locations

  • Brain Health Alliance

    Ladera Ranch, CA 92694

    Site contact: Carl Taswell, MD, PhD · 949-481-3121 · ctaswell@brainhealthalliance.org

Study contacts (from the official record)

  • Carl Taswell, MD, PhD · 949-481-3121 · ctaswell@brainhealthalliance.org
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