Phase III Study of Florbetaben (BAY94-9172) PET Imaging for Detection/Exclusion of Cerebral β-amyloid Compared to Histopathology

Summary

To determine the sensitivity and specificity of the visual assessment of tracer uptake in the Florbetaben PET images compared to histological verification of the presence or absence of cerebral β-amyloid in the respective histopathologic post mortem specimens as the standard of truth

Timeline

Start

2009-11

Primary completion

2011-09

Completion

2013-12

Publications

• Seibyl J, Catafau AM, Barthel H, Ishii K, Rowe CC, Leverenz JB, Ghetti B, Ironside JW, Takao M, Akatsu H, Murayama S, Bullich S, Mueller A, Koglin N, Schulz-Schaeffer WJ, Hoffmann A, Sabbagh MN, Stephens AW, Sabri O. Impact of Training Method on the Robustness of the Visual Assessment of 18F-Florbetaben PET Scans: Results from a Phase-3 Study. J Nucl Med. 2016 Jun;57(6):900-6. doi: 10.2967/jnumed.115.161927. Epub 2016 Jan 28.
• Sabri O, Sabbagh MN, Seibyl J, Barthel H, Akatsu H, Ouchi Y, Senda K, Murayama S, Ishii K, Takao M, Beach TG, Rowe CC, Leverenz JB, Ghetti B, Ironside JW, Catafau AM, Stephens AW, Mueller A, Koglin N, Hoffmann A, Roth K, Reininger C, Schulz-Schaeffer WJ; Florbetaben Phase 3 Study Group. Florbetaben PET imaging to detect amyloid beta plaques in Alzheimer's disease: phase 3 study. Alzheimers Dement. 2015 Aug;11(8):964-74. doi: 10.1016/j.jalz.2015.02.004. Epub 2015 Mar 28.

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