Radiopharmaceuticals for PET and SPECT imaging: a literature review over the last decade

G Crișan, NS Moldovean-Cioroianu… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Positron emission tomography (PET) uses radioactive tracers and enables the functional
imaging of several metabolic processes, blood flow measurements, regional chemical …

Tau PET imaging in neurodegenerative tauopathies—still a challenge

A Leuzy, K Chiotis, L Lemoine, PG Gillberg… - Molecular …, 2019 - nature.com
The accumulation of pathological misfolded tau is a feature common to a collective of
neurodegenerative disorders known as tauopathies, of which Alzheimer's disease (AD) is …

Strategic roadmap for an early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease based on biomarkers

GB Frisoni, M Boccardi, F Barkhof, K Blennow… - The Lancet …, 2017 - thelancet.com
The diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease can be improved by the use of biological measures.
Biomarkers of functional impairment, neuronal loss, and protein deposition that can be …

Tau PET imaging: present and future directions

L Saint-Aubert, L Lemoine, K Chiotis, A Leuzy… - Molecular …, 2017 - Springer
Abnormal aggregation of tau in the brain is a major contributing factor in various
neurodegenerative diseases. The role of tau phosphorylation in the pathophysiology of …

[HTML][HTML] Biomarkers for tau pathology

M Schöll, A Maass, N Mattsson, NJ Ashton… - Molecular and Cellular …, 2019 - Elsevier
The aggregation of fibrils of hyperphosphorylated and C-terminally truncated microtubule-
associated tau protein characterizes 80% of all dementia disorders, the most common …

In vivo characterization and quantification of neurofibrillary tau PET radioligand 18F-MK-6240 in humans from Alzheimer disease dementia to young controls

TJ Betthauser, KA Cody, MD Zammit… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2019 - Soc Nuclear Med
Tau PET imaging has potential for elucidating changes in the deposition of
neuropathological tau aggregates that are occurring during the progression of Alzheimer …

Cerebrospinal fluid clearance in Alzheimer disease measured with dynamic PET

MJ de Leon, Y Li, N Okamura, WH Tsui… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2017 - Soc Nuclear Med
Evidence supporting the hypothesis that reduced cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) clearance is
involved in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer disease (AD) comes primarily from rodent …

Advances in CNS PET: the state-of-the-art for new imaging targets for pathophysiology and drug development

SP McCluskey, C Plisson, EA Rabiner… - European journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Purpose A limit on developing new treatments for a number of central nervous system (CNS)
disorders has been the inadequate understanding of the in vivo pathophysiology underlying …

In vivo tau PET imaging in dementia: pathophysiology, radiotracer quantification, and a systematic review of clinical findings

B Hall, E Mak, S Cervenka, FI Aigbirhio, JB Rowe… - Ageing research …, 2017 - Elsevier
In addition to the deposition of β-amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles composed of
aggregated hyperphosphorylated tau are one of the pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's …

Imaging in-vivo tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease with THK5317 PET in a multimodal paradigm

K Chiotis, L Saint-Aubert, I Savitcheva, V Jelic… - European journal of …, 2016 - Springer
Purpose The aim of this study was to explore the cerebral distribution of the tau-specific PET
tracer [18 F] THK5317 (also known as (S)-[18 F] THK5117) retention in different stages of …