VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Healthcare today announced the final results from a phase 3 study of the investigational PET amyloid imaging agent, [18F]flutemetamol in terminally ill patients who had agreed to undergo postmortem brain autopsy.1 The data showed strong concordance (sensitivity and specificity) between [18F]flutemetamol PET images and beta amyloid brain histopathology. These data confirm the potential of [18F]flutemetamol as an imaging agent to detect beta amyloid plaque, a pathology associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), in living patients.
