PET Imaging Seen As Valuable Tool For Alzheimer's Staging, Diagnostics, University of California, Berkeley (CAL) Study
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, were able to show for the first time the progressive stages of Alzheimer’s disease in healthy adults and patients with Alzheimer’s using PET scans.
This shows positron emission tomography (PET) scans can be used as diagnostic and staging tools in patients suffering from the disease. Researchers also uncovered important new information about two proteins associated with Alzheimer’s pathology: tau and amyloid-beta. The research paper, “PET Imaging of Tau Deposition in the Aging Human Brain,” was published in Neuron.
This shows positron emission tomography (PET) scans can be used as diagnostic and staging tools in patients suffering from the disease. Researchers also uncovered important new information about two proteins associated with Alzheimer’s pathology: tau and amyloid-beta. The research paper, “PET Imaging of Tau Deposition in the Aging Human Brain,” was published in Neuron.