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This Study Involves a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scan Using a New Investigational Radioactive Tracer, [18F]-FZTA, to Detect Inflammation in the Brain. The Tracer Will be Tested in Healthy Younger Adults and Individuals With Multiple Sclerosis.

Investigation of Inflammation Using [18F]FZTA

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 4 Aug 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

This study involves a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scan using a new investigational radioactive tracer, \[18F\]-FZTA, to detect inflammation in the brain. The tracer will be tested in healthy younger adults and individuals with Multiple Sclerosis.

Status (registry)
Recruiting
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
80 (estimated)
First submitted
4 Aug 2025
Start date
22 Aug 2025
Primary completion date
31 Dec 2028
Lead sponsor
Washington University School of Medicine
NCT number
NCT07115017

What you commit to

  • Study type: Observational
  • Planned participants: 80
  • From 22 Aug 2025 to the primary completion date, 31 Dec 2028
  • 1 site in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.

Prior treatment

  • Currently undergoing radiation therapy
  • Current or recent (within 12 months prior to screening) participation in research studies involving radioactive agents such that the total research-related radiation dose to the participant in any given year would exceed the limits set forth in the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 21 Section 361.1.

Other illness

  • Hypersensitivity to \[18F\]FZTA or any of its excipients;
  • Any condition that, in the opinion of the Sponsor-Investigator or designee could increase risk to the participant, limit the participant's ability to tolerate the research procedures, or interfere with the collection of the data (e.g., renal or liver failure, advanced cancer);
  • Participants who in the last 6 months experienced any of the following cardiovascular conditions or findings in the screening electrocardiogram (ECG): clinically significant cardiac arrhythmias including atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response, myocardial infarction, high-grade heart block (type 2 or greater), unstable angina, stroke, transient ischemic attack or decompensated heart failure requiring hospitalization or Class III/IV heart failure;

Other

  • Contraindications to PET, CT, or MRI (e.g., certain incompatible electronic medical devices, inability to lie still for extended periods) that make it potentially unsafe for the individual to participate.
  • Severe claustrophobia
  • Women who are currently pregnant or breastfeeding

Who the study is looking for

  • Male or female, any race
  • Age ≥ 18 years
  • Capable of providing written informed consent for volunteering to undergo research procedures.
  • Healthy volunteer or volunteer with a diagnosis of MS established using the revised McDonald criteria (2017)

Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Washington University in St. Louis
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St LouisUnited StatesRecruiting

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