Pilot Study Intended to Provide Input for Future Designs Using the PET Alpha Ring Detector

Philips

Status: Completed

Conditions: Focus of Study is Imaging Performance With the New Technology Compared With the Currently Available Technology.

Treatments: Device: Additional PET Scan

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT01731860

Alpha Ring 12-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

A standard PET/CT scanner is comprised of two different machines: An X-ray computed tomography scanner (CT), which gives information about your anatomy, and a Positron Emission Tomography scanner (PET) that provides information about how the body functions. Both of these work together to make the final images for doctors to review. As part of this research study the investigators would like to test a new scanner technology by evaluating the quality of the images obtained using this new PET system.

The scanner the investigators would use is able to do both types of examination, the standard PET/CT and the additional research PET. The new PET system adds a second scanner ring to the standard PET/CT. This allows the patient to stay on the same imaging table for both studies. Being in this study does not change how the standard PET/CT will be done.

Enrollment: 51 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients are at least 18 years
• Patients are medically stable
• Patients scheduled for clinically necessary PET/CT examination

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who are pregnant
• Patients who are unwilling/unable to sign the Informed Consent Form
• Patients who are cognitively impaired and unable to provide informed consent
• Patients who have experienced adverse events to PET/CT examinations

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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51 participants in 1 patient group

Patients receiving PET/CT

Experimental group

Description:

Patients already scheduled for a clinically necessary PET/CT scan.

Treatment:

Device: Additional PET Scan