Status:

COMPLETED

Effect of Respiratory Motion on Positron Emission Tomography Imaging

Lead Sponsor:

National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)

Conditions:

Healthy

Tomography

Eligibility:

All Genders

7+ years

Brief Summary

This study will determine how breathing motions may affect positron emission tomography (PET) scans. It has been discovered that the quality of PET scans varies according to which part of the breathin...

Detailed Description

Current clinical FDG imaging with the NIH's PET/CT machine (and in fact with most commercial PET/CT machines) requires a CT scan be acquired prior to the PET scan. This CT scan is used for attenuation...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • INCLUSION CRITERIA
  • Up to 30 subjects will take part in the study, chosen from sequential incoming clinical patients who are scheduled for PET/CT studies of the torso and who have had or will have a diagnostic CT within one week of the PET/CT study, without regard to disease. The number of subjects selected for study per week will depend on patient load and availability of scanner and technologist). Approximately an equal number of males and females will be selected by alternating each selection between male and female. The selection of subjects asked to participate will be random, in the sense that whenever technologist and analysis time is available, the next subject scheduled for a whole body scan will be asked to participate.
  • EXCLUSION CRITERIA
  • The only exclusion criteria will be subjects with respiratory difficulties.
  • Children under the age of 12.

Exclusion

    Key Trial Info

    Start Date :

    July 1 2004

    Trial Type :

    OBSERVATIONAL

    End Date :

    June 1 2006

    Estimated Enrollment :

    30 Patients enrolled

    Trial Details

    Trial ID

    NCT00088361

    Start Date

    July 1 2004

    End Date

    June 1 2006

    Last Update

    March 4 2008

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    National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)

    Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892