SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NeuroVision Imaging, LLC announced today that preliminary results of a major clinical trial show the company’s investigational noninvasive imaging system appeared to detect changes associated with Alzheimer’s disease with a simple eye test.
The blinded clinical trial of 200 subjects is designed to correlate retinal plaque detected by NeuroVision’s noninvasive imaging test with brain plaque considered to be a hallmark sign of Alzheimer’s disease, using positron emission tomography, or PET, which is the current standard for clinical trials. Preliminary results of 40 patients showed that beta-amyloid levels detected in the retina with a simple eye test were significantly correlated with beta-amyloid levels in the brain that appeared using PET imaging. The retinal amyloid imaging test differentiated between Alzheimer’s and non-Alzheimer’s subjects with 100 percent sensitivity and 80.6 percent specificity. Beta-amyloid protein is the primary material found in brain plaques characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease. With the ability to detect plaques on the order of 20 microns, the test offers great promise for early detection.
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