This study will evaluate flortaucipir for brain imaging of tau in subjects with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), corticobasal degeneration (CBD) and healthy volunteers.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
29
IV injection, 370 megabecquerel (MBq) (10 mCi)
positron emission tomography (PET) scan of the brain 75-105 minutes post-injection
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
UCSD Movement Disorder Clinic
La Jolla, California, United States
UCSF Neurosciences Clinical Research Unit
San Francisco, California, United States
Molecular Neuroimaging
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Flortaucipir Imaging in PSP, CBD and Healthy Volunteers
A PSP/CBD (PSP = progressive supranuclear palsy; CBD = corticobasal degeneration) targeted composite Standardized Uptake Value ratio (SUVr) was calculated as the voxel-weighted average from the regional SUVr values of the left, right, and total globus pallidus and the dentate nuclei of the cerebellum for both the baseline and 9 month PET scans. Additionally, a global cortical Alzheimer's Disease (AD)-targeted cortical SUVr was calculated. For SUVr, a value of 1 signifies no flortaucipir activity above background, values greater than 1 signify increasing flortaucipir activity in the brain.
Time frame: baseline and 9 month scans
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Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States