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Review
. 2015 Mar 9:6:38.
doi: 10.3389/fneur.2015.00038. eCollection 2015.

PET Imaging of Tau Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease and Tauopathies

Olga G James  1 , P Murali Doraiswamy  2 , Salvador Borges-Neto  1
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Review

PET Imaging of Tau Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease and Tauopathies

Olga G James et al. Front Neurol. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Alzheimer’s disease; PET neuroimaging; dementia; tau pathologies; tau proteins.

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Figure 1
(A) Normal 18F-AV-1451 PET study illustrating a tau-PET scan from an elderly cognitively normal subject (MMSE score of 30). No abnormal uptake is demonstrated above diffuse background activity. (B) Abnormal 18F-AV-1451 PET study illustrating a tau-PET scan images of a subject with mild Alzheimer’s disease (MMSE score of 22). Unlike an individual with normal cognition, there is abnormally increased radiotracer uptake distributed in the temporal lobes bilaterally. Source: Duke University.
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