PET parametric imaging: past, present, and future

G Wang, A Rahmim, RN Gunn - IEEE transactions on radiation …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Positron emission tomography (PET) is actively used in a diverse range of applications in
oncology, cardiology, and neurology. The use of PET in the clinical setting focuses on static …

PET image denoising based on denoising diffusion probabilistic model

K Gong, K Johnson, G El Fakhri, Q Li, T Pan - European Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Purpose Due to various physical degradation factors and limited counts received, PET
image quality needs further improvements. The denoising diffusion probabilistic model …

Intrinsic, widefield optical imaging of hemodynamics in rodent models of Alzheimer's disease and neurological injury

C Crouzet, T Phan, RH Wilson, TJ Shin… - …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The complex cerebrovascular network is critical to controlling local cerebral blood flow
(CBF) and maintaining brain homeostasis. Alzheimer's disease (AD) and neurological injury …

Spatial decrease of synaptic density in amnestic mild cognitive impairment follows the tau build-up pattern

G Vanderlinden, J Ceccarini, T Vande Casteele… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Next to amyloid and tau, synaptic loss is a key pathological hallmark in Alzheimer's disease,
closely related to cognitive dysfunction and neurodegeneration. Tau is thought to cause …

Amyloid, tau and metabolic PET correlates of cognition in early and late-onset Alzheimer's disease

JA Tanner, L Iaccarino, L Edwards, BM Asken… - Brain, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Early-onset (age< 65) Alzheimer's disease is associated with greater non-amnestic
cognitive symptoms and neuropathological burden than late-onset disease. It is not fully …

Regional tau effects on prospective cognitive change in cognitively normal older adults

X Chen, KE Cassady, JN Adams… - Journal of …, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
Studies suggest that tau deposition starts in the anterolateral entorhinal cortex (EC) with
normal aging, and that the presence of β-amyloid (Aβ) facilitates its spread to neocortex …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of whole-brain oxygen metabolism in Alzheimer's disease using QSM and quantitative BOLD

A Yang, H Zhuang, L Du, B Liu, K Lv, J Luan, P Hu… - NeuroImage, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective The objective of this study was to evaluate the whole-brain pattern of oxygen
extraction fraction (OEF), cerebral blood flow (CBF), and cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen …

[HTML][HTML] Differential associations between neocortical tau pathology and blood flow with cognitive deficits in early-onset vs late-onset Alzheimer's disease

D Visser, SCJ Verfaillie, EE Wolters… - European journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose Early-onset Alzheimer's disease (EOAD) and late-onset Alzheimer's
disease (LOAD) differ in neuropathological burden and type of cognitive deficits. Assessing …

[HTML][HTML] Spatiotemporal patterns of locus coeruleus integrity predict cortical tau and cognition

E Bueichekú, I Diez, CM Kim, JA Becker, EA Koops… - Nature aging, 2024 - nature.com
Autopsy studies indicated that the locus coeruleus (LC) accumulates hyperphosphorylated
tau before allocortical regions in Alzheimer's disease. By combining in vivo longitudinal …