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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Radiol Clin North Am. 2021 Sep;59(5):755–772. doi: 10.1016/j.rcl.2021.05.007

Table 1:

Clinical trials investigating PET at various time points and with various PET radiopharmaceuticals in melanoma patients treated with different IO therapeutics as registered at www.clinicaltrials.gov at the time of submission.

Study ID Radiopharmaceutical(s) IO Therapy Primary endpoint Imaging Time points
NCT03356470 FDG and FLT Nivolumab or
Pembrolizumab
Correlate baseline and posttreatment molecular imaging biomarkers of response to immunotherapy Baseline and 1012 weeks posttherapy
NCT03089606 FDG and [11C]AMT Pembrolizumab Association of SUVmax with
objective response rate
Baseline and 12 weeks posttherapy
NCT03888950 FDG Nivolumab or
Pembrolizumab
Quantify changes in FDG uptake by PERCIST criteria Baseline
, day 21-
31, and 3 months post-therapy
NCT04272658 FDG Nivolumab or Pembrolizumab or combo
Ipilimumab/Nivoluma b
Differentiate progression vs pseudoprogressio n using 4D bodyto-whole dynamic acquisition Not specifie d
NCT03584334 FDG Nivolumab or
Pembrolizumab
Threshold of FDG retention index to distinguish progression versus pseudoprogression Baseline
, 7
weeks, and 3 months posttherapy
NCT02716077 FDG Pembrolizumab Disease-free survival Not specifie d
NCT04221438 FLT Encorafenib and
Binimetinib
Change in
SUVmax
Baseline and 8–9 weeks posttherapy
NCT04462406 FDG Nivolumab or Pembrolizumab or combo with Event-free survival – active surveillance Baseline and 12 months
Ipilimumab following negative PET or positive PET but negative biopsy posttherapy
NCT03520634 [18F]PD-L1 Nivolumab Determine optimal dose of tracer and timing of imaging Baseline and 6 weeks posttherapy
NCT02591654 FLT Pembrolizumab Prevalence of lesion detection Baseline and 6 weeks posttherapy