PET/MRI scan to assess brain tumors and metastases
Part of Brain & nervous system, Cancer clinical trials.
This trial tests how well a special PET/MRI scan can help doctors evaluate gliomas and brain metastases. It may help improve diagnosis and treatment planning by comparing scan results with tissue samples or surgery findings.
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Who can take part
- You are an adult (over 18 years old).
- For glioma: you have a planned treatment for a diffuse glioma (WHO grade II–IV), and doctors plan to take tissue for lab diagnosis.
- For brain metastases: you have 1–4 brain metastases and you are planning surgery or stereotactic radiosurgery (a targeted procedure).
- You can give informed consent (and your speech/thinking abilities allow this).
- You can have a 3T MRI: no pacemaker/defibrillator that isn’t compatible with a 3T MRI; you must also weigh 120 kg or less.
- If you could be pregnant: you cannot be pregnant, and if applicable you must follow pregnancy testing; you also cannot breastfeed.
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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