Longitudinal amyloid and tau PET imaging in Alzheimer's disease: A systematic review of methodologies and factors affecting quantification

A Bollack, HG Pemberton, LE Collij… - Alzheimer's & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Deposition of amyloid and tau pathology can be quantified in vivo using positron emission
tomography (PET). Accurate longitudinal measurements of accumulation from these images …

[HTML][HTML] Uses of human MR and PET imaging in research of neurodegenerative brain diseases

CG Schwarz - Neurotherapeutics, 2021 - Elsevier
In the past decades, many neuroimaging studies have aimed to improve the scientific
understanding of human neurodegenerative diseases using MRI and PET. This article is …

Tau protein spreads through functionally connected neurons in Alzheimer's disease: a combined MEG/PET study

DN Schoonhoven, EM Coomans, AP Millán… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Recent studies on Alzheimer's disease (AD) suggest that tau proteins spread through the
brain following neuronal connections. Several mechanisms could be involved in this …

A head-to-head comparison between plasma ptau181 and tau pet along the Alzheimer's disease continuum

EM Coomans, IMW Verberk… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2023 - Soc Nuclear Med
Both plasma tau phosphorylated at threonine-181 (pTau181) and tau PET show potential for
detecting Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology and predicting clinical progression. In this …

Genetically identical twins show comparable tau PET load and spatial distribution

EM Coomans, J Tomassen, R Ossenkoppele… - Brain, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Tau accumulation starts during the preclinical phase of Alzheimer's disease and is closely
associated with cognitive decline. For preventive purposes, it is important to identify factors …

Performance of a [18F]Flortaucipir PET Visual Read Method Across the Alzheimer Disease Continuum and in Dementia With Lewy Bodies

EM Coomans, LA De Koning, RM Rikken… - Neurology, 2023 - AAN Enterprises
Background and Objectives Recently, the US Food and Drug Administration approved the
tau-binding radiotracer [18F] flortaucipir and an accompanying visual read method to …

Genetically identical twin-pair difference models support the amyloid cascade hypothesis

EM Coomans, J Tomassen, R Ossenkoppele, BM Tijms… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The amyloid cascade hypothesis has strongly impacted the Alzheimer's disease research
agenda and clinical trial designs over the past decades, but precisely how amyloid-β …

Precision estimates of relative and absolute cerebral blood flow in Alzheimer's disease and cognitively normal individuals

F Heeman, D Visser, M Yaqub… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Alzheimer's disease is characterized by regional reductions in cerebral blood flow (CBF).
Although the gold standard for measuring CBF is [15O] H2O PET, proxies of relative CBF …

Tau pathology as determinant of changes in atrophy and cerebral blood flow: a multi-modal longitudinal imaging study

D Visser, SCJ Verfaillie, I Bosch, I Brouwer… - European journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose Tau pathology is associated with concurrent atrophy and decreased cerebral blood
flow (CBF) in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but less is known about their temporal relationships …

Longitudinal Tau PET Using 18F-Flortaucipir: The Effect of Relative Cerebral Blood Flow on Quantitative and Semiquantitative Parameters

D Visser, H Tuncel, R Ossenkoppele… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2023 - Soc Nuclear Med
Semiquantitative PET measures such as SUV ratio (SUVr) have several advantages over
quantitative measures, such as practical applicability and relative computational simplicity …