Standard PET/CT vs. Digital PET/CT

Stanford University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cancer

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Digital PET/CT scan

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03081767

IRB Protocol: 39329

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators wish to determine if standard and digital PET/CT scanners provide equivalent results for disease detection and diagnosis.

Full description

There will be a single injection of the PET radiopharmaceutical followed by a standard PET/CT scan and immediately after by the digital PET/CT scan, or vice versa. The investigators wish to determine if image quality is equivalent with the digital PET/CT scanner.

Enrollment: 199 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient is ≥ 18 years old at the time of the scan
• Patient provides written informed consent
• Patient is referred for standard (F18 FDG; F18 NaF; Ga68 DOTATATE) or research (68Ga PSMA or 68Ga RM2) PET/CT
• Patient is capable of complying with study procedures
• Patient is able to remain still for duration of imaging procedure (approximately 60 minutes total for both PET/CT)

Exclusion criteria

• Patient is pregnant or nursing

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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199 participants in 1 patient group

Patients undergoing digital PET/CT

Other group

Description:

Single arm prospective study of paired imaging studies. Patients who are referred to Nuclear Medicine and are scheduled to undergo imaging on the standard PET/CT will also have imaging performed on the digital PET/CT.

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Digital PET/CT scan