The z-scores of perfusion-weighted images of both tracers showed high correlations across the brain, especially in the frontal and parietal lobes, which were the brain regions with pronounced perfusion deficit in the patient group (R = 0.83 ± 0.08; range, 0.61-0.95). 4 key findings →
Participants: 64
Evidence: moderate
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Global visual scores were reliable, correlated with global cortical 18F-flortaucipir standardized uptake value ratio (SUVR) and were associated with clinical diagnosis and amyloid status. 3 key findings →
Participants: 274
Evidence: low
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Percentage of visually tau-positive scans increased with amyloid-beta deposition measured in 18F-florbetaben Centiloids (CL) (7.7% (<36 CL), 80% (>83 CL)). 18F-PI-2620 standardized uptake value ratio (SUVR) was correlated with increased 18F-florbetaben CL in several regions of interest. 5 key findings →
Design: clinical trial
Participants: 74
Evidence: low
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In the smallest required sample of 15 cAD and 10 Aβ-negative participants, conversion error was 1.7 Centiloids at 25 Centiloids and 3.4 Centiloids at 100 Centiloids. 5 key findings →
Participants: 157
Evidence: low
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There is greater interest in amyloid biomarker for the diagnosis of Alzheimer disease (AD) with the recent Food and Drug Administration approval of amyloid-targeted therapy. 1 key finding →
Participants: 74
Evidence: low
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Both MRI-based and CT-based rdcCL scales showed that FMM and FBB were highly correlated with each other, globally and regionally (R2 = 0.96~0.99). 5 key findings →
Participants: 63
Evidence: moderate
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Amyloid positron emission tomography ([18F] florbetaben (FBB) PET) can be used to determine concomitant Alzheimer's disease (AD) in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) patients. 4 key findings →
Participants: 31
Evidence: low
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All Centiloid cut-offs fell within the range of 25-35, except for CSF Aβ42 that rendered an optimal cut-off value of 12 CL. 5 key findings →
Participants: 205
Evidence: moderate
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52/100
✓ Peer-reviewed
alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100.
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EJNMMI physics
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2020-09-29
Compared with manual step-by-step processing, our developed automated quantification tool reduced processing time by 85%. 5 key findings →
Participants: 166
Evidence: low
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Reimbursement of amyloid-positron emission tomography (PET) is lagging due to the lack of definitive evidence on its clinical utility and cost-effectiveness. 5 key findings →
Evidence: high
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52/100
✓ Peer-reviewed
alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100.
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Brain
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2017-02-15
See Vandenberghe and Schaeverbeke (doi:10.1093/awx065) for a scientific commentary on this article. 3 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional
Evidence: moderate
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CSF biomarkers and amyloid positron emission tomography reflect different aspects of Alzheimer's disease brain pathology, and therefore, less-than-perfect correspondence is expected. 1 key finding →
Participants: 200
Evidence: low
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A group of living former NFL players with cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms had higher tau levels measured by PET than controls in brain regions that are affected by CTE and did not have elevated amyloid-beta levels. 2 key findings →
Participants: 26
Evidence: low
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The PET Core has demonstrated a variety of methods for the standardization of biomarkers such as florbetapir PET in a multicenter setting. 4 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional
Evidence: moderate
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CBS Aβ+ group showed a reduced Aβ42/40 ratio, with elevated phosphorylated tau (p-tau)181, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), and neurofilament light (NfL) concentrations, while CBS Aβ- group only showed elevated NfL concentration compared to CU. 5 key findings →
Evidence: moderate
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Testing an Alzheimer's disease continuum cohort, the area under the curve (AUC), sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy for the p-tau217/Aβ42 ratio reached 0.961, 93%, 92%, and 93%, respectively. 5 key findings →
Evidence: moderate
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Plasma amyloid-β (Aβ) was associated with brain Aβ deposition and Alzheimer's disease (AD) development. 4 key findings →
Participants: 449
Evidence: low
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The contributors to persistent cognitive impairment and hippocampal atrophy in leucine-rich glioma-inactivated 1 antibody encephalitis (LGI1) patients are unknown. 2 key findings →
Participants: 124
Evidence: low
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All six CTE stage III cases had Braak NFT stage III but no neuritic plaques. 5 key findings →
Design: clinical trial
Participants: 39
Evidence: low
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[18F]PI-2620 is a second generation tracer that has shown high binding affinity for tau aggregation in Alzheimer's disease (AD). 2 key findings →
Participants: 49
Evidence: low
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The aAD patients showed significantly higher tau accumulation, relative hypoperfusion and grey matter density loss in the temporal lobes compared to PCA and lvPPA patients. 5 key findings →
Participants: 32
Evidence: low
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50/100
✓ Peer-reviewed
alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100.
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NeuroImage
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2025-01-09
Patients with 4R-tauopathies in contrast to non-4R-tauopathies were detected at higher sensitivity in the 20-40-minute frame (common: 79%, scaled: 76%) compared to the 40-60-minute frame (common: 55%, scaled: 62%), albeit with reduced specificity in the common setting (20-40-min: 78%, 40-60-min: 95%), which was ameliorated in the intensity-scaled setting (20-40-min: 91%, 40-60-min: 96%). 5 key findings →
Participants: 29
Evidence: low
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We compared regional retention of 18F-flortaucipir between 20 patients with Lewy body disorders (LBD), 12 Alzheimer's disease patients with positive amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) scans (AD+Aβ) and 15 healthy controls with negative amyloid PET scans (HC-Aβ). 1 key finding →
Participants: 20
Evidence: moderate
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SUVR using the whole cerebellum as the reference region and centiloid (CL) cutoffs for early and established amyloid pathology were 1.10 (13.5 CL) and 1.24 (35.7 CL), respectively. 5 key findings →
Participants: 287
Evidence: low
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Four of the 17 patients (23.5%) had amyloid-β pathology based on the overall pathology read and also showed increased [(18)F]flutemetamol uptake. [(18)F]Flutemetamol standardized uptake values from the biopsy site were significantly associated with biopsy specimen amyloid-β levels (Pearson's r = 0.67; p = 0.006). 5 key findings →
Participants: 17
Evidence: low
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