Recruitment

Recruitment Status
Recruiting
Estimated Enrollment
Same as current

Summary

Conditions
Lung Cancer
Type
Interventional
Phase
Not Applicable
Design
Allocation: N/AIntervention Model: Single Group AssignmentMasking: None (Open Label)Primary Purpose: Diagnostic

Participation Requirements

Age
Younger than 125 years
Gender
Both males and females

Description

Lung cancer is the most frequent cancer type and the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Positron emission tomography (PET) coupled with computed tomography (CT) is the standard of care for visualization and staging of lung cancer. Recent clinical introduction of hybrid PET and magnetic...

Lung cancer is the most frequent cancer type and the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Positron emission tomography (PET) coupled with computed tomography (CT) is the standard of care for visualization and staging of lung cancer. Recent clinical introduction of hybrid PET and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging systems has shown potential to improve tumor imaging beyond the limits of PET/CT. However, knowledge about the clinical impact of this new hybrid modality is still limited. This project aims to investigate how PET/MR may improve the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer disease, compared to PET/CT: PET/MR may allow early detection of brain and liver metastases, which strongly affects treatment outcome and survival; predictive models based on machine learning may combine image derived biomarkers from PET/MR, histology and health record data, to automatically visualize and characterize the tumor, facilitating computer aided diagnosis and personalized radiotherapy treatment.

Tracking Information

NCT #
NCT03739281
Collaborators
Not Provided
Investigators
Principal Investigator: Rune Sundset, MD, PhD University Hospital of North Norway