PET imaging for early detection of Alzheimer's disease: from pathologic to physiologic biomarkers

W Bao, H Jia, S Finnema, Z Cai, RE Carson… - PET clinics, 2017 - pet.theclinics.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) affects more than 35 million people worldwide, and the number is
estimated to quadruple in 40 years if there remains no cure. 1–4 AD is characterized by the …

[HTML][HTML] PET amyloid-beta imaging in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

AG Vlassenko, TLS Benzinger, JC Morris - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2012 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia, accounting for 60–70% of all
cases [Hebert et al., 2003, 1]. The need for effective therapies for AD is great. Current …

Early detection of Alzheimer's disease with PET imaging

V Berti, RS Osorio, L Mosconi, Y Li, S De Santi… - Neurodegenerative …, 2010 - karger.com
Preclinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the major challenges for the
prevention of AD. AD biomarkers are needed not only to reveal preclinical pathologic …

Brain PET Imaging: Approach to Cognitive Impairment and Dementia

M Spano, M Roytman, M Aboian, B Saboury… - PET clinics, 2023 - pet.theclinics.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia, accounting for 50% to 60%
of cases and affecting nearly 6 million people in the United States. The prevalence is …

A future for PET imaging in Alzheimer's disease

A Kas, R Migliaccio, B Tavitian - European Journal of Nuclear Medicine …, 2020 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease is defined neuropathologically by abnormal extra-cellular β-amyloid
plaques combined with intraneuronal tau aggregation (neurofibrillary tangles). Observations …

FDG-PET and amyloid-PET imaging: the diverging paths

D Perani - Current Opinion in Neurology, 2014 - journals.lww.com
The different molecular paths that PET in-vivo biomarkers can reveal in the timeframe of
Alzheimer's disease progression reflect the events leading to deposition of Aβ and …

PET imaging of tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease and tauopathies

OG James, PM Doraiswamy, S Borges-Neto - Frontiers in neurology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a major public health problem affecting nearly 35 million people
worldwide with numbers projected to rise to 115.4 million by 2050. Medicare and Medicaid …

The use of PET in Alzheimer disease

A Nordberg, JO Rinne, A Kadir… - Nature Reviews …, 2010 - nature.com
In Alzheimer disease (AD), which is the most common cause of dementia, the underlying
disease pathology most probably precedes the onset of cognitive symptoms by many years …

[HTML][HTML] FDG-and amyloid-PET in Alzheimer's disease: Is the whole greater than the sum of the parts?

L Mosconi, PF McHugh - The Quarterly Journal of Nuclear Medicine …, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The development of prevention therapies for Alzheimer's disease (AD) would greatly benefit
from biomarkers that are sensitive to subtle brain changes occurring prior to the onset of …

Neuroimaging of Alzheimer's disease: focus on amyloid and tau PET

H Matsuda, Y Shigemoto, N Sato - Japanese journal of radiology, 2019 - Springer
Although the diagnosis of dementia is still largely a clinical one, based on history and
disease course, neuroimaging has dramatically increased our ability to accurately diagnose …