Center Without Walls for Imaging Proteinopathies With PET (CW2IP2): Imaging and Diagnostic Assessments
This current protocol will provide the key data to help determine the specificity of our to-be-developed radiotracers by implementing a multi-site diagnostic assessment core and PET imaging of A-beta amyloid (may be completed at some sites as part of another protocol) that is commonly deposited in the brains of people with Parkinson's Disease (PD), Multiple System Atrophy (MSA), Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) or Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) as well as healthy controls. This multicenter U19 grant is centered at U Pennsylvania (U Penn) (PI: Robert Mach) in collaboration with U Pittsburgh (Pitt), Yale University, U of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and Washington University in St. Louis (WU). U Penn will act as the single IRB of Record (sIRB) for this multi-center project and subjects will be recruited from all sites.
• Participants: Patients in all cohorts will range from 40 to 85 yrs and will be both male and female.
• Participants must be informed of the investigational nature of this study and be willing to provide written informed consent and participate in this study in accordance with institutional and federal guidelines prior to study-specific procedures. Participants who are deemed unable to provide informed consent must have a designated Legally Authorized Representative(LAR) present for consent and a Study Partner to accompany them to study visits. The LAR and the Study Partner may be the same person.
• Clinical diagnoses for each cohort will be determined by consensus committee for diagnostic agreement (PD, MSA, PSP, FTD or Healthy control)