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Testing Brain and Heart Scanning Equipment Before Future Studies

Checks how brain and heart scanners are used in healthy people and patients with Parkinson's.

Key facts

Who runs it
University Hospital, Grenoble
Where
Grenoble, FranceSee the site
Trial code
Registry title
Preparation and Feasibility of Exams for Expected Studies
Status
Recruiting
People taking part
150 people, planned
Started
20 Mar 2023
Expected to end
20 Mar 2033
Type of study
Interventional, 3 groups
Treatments tested
  • CE marked Medical Device MagnetoEncephaloGraphy (MEG) usability
  • CE marked Medical Device Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) usability
  • CE marked Medical Device ElectroEncephaloGraphy (EEG) usability
  • CE marked Medical Device ElectroCardioGraphy (ECG) usability
Record updated
2 September 2025

Who can take part

AI summary

From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.

The trial is looking for adults, including healthy volunteers, Parkinson's disease patients and people with paraplegia or tetraplegia, to test scans and other exams for future studies.

Age
18 years or older
Sex
All sexes can join.

Main reasons for not taking part

  • Pregnant women, women in labour or nursing mothers
  • People in an exclusion period from another study
  • People deprived of liberty or under a legal protection measure
  • People who got more than 4500 euros for other research in the past 12 months
  • People who cannot be reached urgently

The registry criteria, word for word

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Who can take part

  • Age ⩾ 18 years
  • Affiliated to a social security scheme
  • Free and informed consent signed

Who cannot take part

  • Subject in a period of exclusion from another study
  • Subject deprived of liberty by a judicial or administrative decision, or major subject subject to a legal protection measure (guardianship, curatorship and safeguarding of justice) referred to in Articles 1121-6 to 1121-8 of the Public Health Code
  • Subject who would receive more than 4500 euros in compensation because of his participation in other research involving the human person in the 12 months preceding this study
  • Pregnant woman, parturient, nursing mother (Article 1121-5 of the Public Health Code)
  • Subject not reachable urgently

Where in France

  • Clinatec Cea/ChugaGrenoble, FranceContact: Stéphan CHABARDES, MD, PhDTaking people

About the trial

What the trial wants to find out

Feasibility study: the examinations carried out as part of this protocol aim to carry out all the acquisitions and simulations of use, necessary for the development of the clinical research protocols to come to Clinatec (in particular, configuration of the equipment, dimension of the examination time and the size of the cohorts etc ...)

The 3 groups in the trial

  • Healthy VolunteersOther group

    tests

    Treatment: CE marked Medical Device MagnetoEncephaloGraphy (MEG) usability, CE marked Medical Device Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) usability, CE marked Medical Device ElectroEncephaloGraphy (EEG) usability, and CE marked Medical Device ElectroCardioGraphy (ECG) usability

  • Parkinson's Disease patientsOther group

    tests

    Treatment: CE marked Medical Device MagnetoEncephaloGraphy (MEG) usability, CE marked Medical Device Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) usability, CE marked Medical Device ElectroEncephaloGraphy (EEG) usability, and CE marked Medical Device ElectroCardioGraphy (ECG) usability

  • Para/tetraplegic PatientsOther group

    tests

    Treatment: CE marked Medical Device MagnetoEncephaloGraphy (MEG) usability, CE marked Medical Device Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) usability, CE marked Medical Device ElectroEncephaloGraphy (EEG) usability, and CE marked Medical Device ElectroCardioGraphy (ECG) usability

Questions to ask the study team

  1. How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
  2. Are travel costs paid?
  3. Can I keep my own doctor?
  4. What happens if I want to stop?

Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations

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Data and sources

Registry record
Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
Official title
Preparation and Feasibility of Exams for Expected Studies (PRELUDE)
Plain-language title
Testing Brain and Heart Scanning Equipment Before Future StudiesGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 12 November 2026.
Record updated
2 September 2025