🏛️ Verified NIH Record • Updated 2025-01-04
Entire-body PET Scans for Multiple Sclerosis (NCT04390009)
🟢 Recruiting Early Phase1 💊 Investigational Drug / Biologic Sponsor: Brain Health Alliance
🩺 Plain-English Summary (8th-Grade Level)
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.
Who can join: To join this study, participants generally need to meet the listed inclusion criteria (3 items) and avoid the listed exclusions (7 items).
Location: Brain Health Alliance — Ladera Ranch, California
📋 "Do I Qualify?" — 1-Minute Self Screener
Instant ChecklistCheck every box below. If you can check all of them, you may meet the study's basic screening requirements (final eligibility is confirmed by the site team).
Usually NOT eligible if any of the following apply:
- 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.
🔍 Extracted verbatim from the official NIH eligibility criteria. Always confirm with the study coordinator.
📍 All Participating Trial Locations (1 Sites)
- Brain Health Alliance — Ladera Ranch, California
💰 Cost, Insurance & Patient Rights
- 100% Free Items: The investigational treatment and protocol-required procedures are supplied at zero cost by the sponsor.
- Routine Patient Care: Under federal law (ACA § 2709) and many state statutes, routine care costs are covered during participation.
- Voluntary Participation: You may withdraw at any time without affecting your standard medical care.