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  1. Large-scale head-to-head comparison of on- and off-target profiles of [18F]Tauvid and [18F]MK6240 tau-PET in aging and Alzheimer’s disease 2026-11-01
  2. Detection of tau spatial extent using MK6240 and flortaucipir PET 2026-10-28
  3. Soluble amyloid composition links proximal APP processing, fibrillar burden and the p-tau181 response 2026-10-22

Studies

319 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1995 to 2026

Top journals

  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 37
  • Alzheimer's research & therapy 21
  • Brain : a journal of neurology 18
  • Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 17
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 15

105 journals in all.

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  1. Distinct 18F-AV-1451 tau PET retention patterns in early- and late-onset Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2017-09-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Patients with Alzheimer's disease can present with different clinical phenotypes.

  2. 18F-Flortaucipir PET/MRI Correlations in Nonamnestic and Amnestic Variants of Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2017-07-26 Brain scans and imaging

    The subgroups showed the expected 18F-flortaucipir-binding patterns.

  3. Correlation between two methods of florbetapir PET quantitative analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. American journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2017-07-15 Brain scans and imaging

    This study evaluated performance of a commercially available standardized software program for calculation of florbetapir PET standard uptake value ratios (SUVr) in comparison with an established research method.

  4. Tau pathology and cognitive reserve in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2017-05-10 Risk factors

    Cognitive reserve (CR) is defined as the ability to maintain functionality despite accumulating pathology.

  5. Fluorodeoxyglucose metabolism associated with tau-amyloid interaction predicts memory decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2017-04-06 Brain scans and imaging

    Our study identified a synergistic effect of amyloid and tau deposits and demonstrated, for the first time, in normal elderly its link to AD-like hypometabolism and to AD-like memory decline.

  6. Chemically treated plasma Aβ is a potential blood-based biomarker for screening cerebral amyloid deposition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2017-03-22 Biomarkers

    MPP-Aβ might be one of the potential blood biomarkers for the prediction of PiB-PET positivity in the brain.

  7. Feasibility of in vivo 18F-florbetaben PET/MR imaging of human carotid amyloid-β

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2017-03-21 Brain scans and imaging

    18F-Florbetaben uptake was clearly visualized in the carotid arteries.

  8. 18F-AV-1451 positron emission tomography in Alzheimer's disease and progressive supranuclear palsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2017-03-01 Brain scans and imaging

    More specifically, 18F-AV-1451 binding was significantly increased in patients with Alzheimer's disease, relative to patients with progressive supranuclear palsy and with control subjects, in the hippocampus and in occipital, parietal, temporal, and frontal cortices (t's > 2.2, P's < 0.04).

  9. Relationships between flortaucipir PET tau binding and amyloid burden, clinical diagnosis, age and cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2017-03-01 Brain scans and imaging

    For amyloid positron emission tomography positive (Aβ+) subjects, flortaucipir neocortical standard uptake value ratio was significantly higher with more advanced clinical stage (Alzheimer's disease > mild cognitive impairment > older cognitively normal) and was significantly elevated for Aβ+ mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease subjects relative to the respective Aβ- subjects.

  10. Tau and β-Amyloid Are Associated with Medial Temporal Lobe Structure, Function, and Memory Encoding in Normal Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2017-02-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Normal aging is associated with a decline in episodic memory and also with aggregation of the β-amyloid (Aβ) and tau proteins and atrophy of medial temporal lobe (MTL) structures crucial to memory formation.

  11. Association between tau deposition and antecedent amyloid-β accumulation rates in normal and early symptomatic individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Brain 2017-02-15 Brain scans and imaging

    See Vandenberghe and Schaeverbeke (doi:10.1093/awx065) for a scientific commentary on this article.

  12. [Amyloid positron-emission-tomography with [18 F]-florbetaben in the diagnostic workup of dementia patients]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Der Nervenarzt 2017-02 Brain scans and imaging

    17 out of 33 patients were scored as FBB-PET positive.

  13. Diagnostic impact of [18F]flutemetamol PET in early-onset dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2017-01-17 Brain scans and imaging

    [18F]flutemetamol PET scans were positive in 133 out of 211 (63%) patients, of whom 110 out of 144 (76%) patients had a pre-PET Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis and 23 out of 67 (34%) patients had a non-AD diagnosis.

  14. An easy way to increase confidence in beta-amyloid PET evaluation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Nuclear medicine review. Central & Eastern Europe 2017 Brain scans and imaging

    Early- and late-phase image fusion displayed with appropriate color tables is presented in three different cases to illustrate the added value of the suggested approach.

  15. Cerebrospinal Fluid Aβ42/40 Corresponds Better than Aβ42 to Amyloid PET in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017-01-01 Biomarkers

    The CSF Aβ42/40 ratio is superior to Aβ42 alone as a marker of amyloid-positivity by PET.

  16. Depressive Symptoms and Tau Accumulation in the Inferior Temporal Lobe and Entorhinal Cortex in Cognitively Normal Older Adults: A Pilot Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Future longitudinal studies examining the association of more severe depressive symptoms and cerebral tau accumulation are needed to substantiate this finding and to guide prevention and treatment in AD.

  17. In vivo Patterns of Tau Pathology, Amyloid-β Burden, and Neuronal Dysfunction in Clinical Variants of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The clinical heterogeneity of Alzheimer's disease is not reflected in the rather diffuse cortical deposition of amyloid-β.

  18. The Cerebrospinal Fluid Aβ1-42/Aβ1-40 Ratio Improves Concordance with Amyloid-PET for Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease in a Clinical Setting

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017-01-01 Biomarkers

    We detected an increased concordance in the visual and quantitative (standardized uptake value ratio (SUVR) and total volume of distribution (VT)) [18F]AV45 PET measures when the CSF Aβ1-42/Aβ1-40 was applied compared to Aβ1-42 alone.

  19. AV-1451 tau and β-amyloid positron emission tomography imaging in dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2016-12-19 Brain scans and imaging

    Medial temporal lobe AV-1451 uptake distinguishes AD dementia from probable DLB, which may be useful for differential diagnosis.

  20. Post-mortem histopathology underlying β-amyloid PET imaging following flutemetamol F 18 injection

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2016-12-12 Brain scans and imaging

    In vivo imaging of fibrillar β-amyloid deposits may assist clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), aid treatment selection for patients, assist clinical trials of therapeutic drugs through subject selection, and be used as an outcome measure.

  21. Florbetapir-PET to diagnose cerebral amyloid angiopathy: A prospective study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurology 2016-09-07 Brain scans and imaging

    The CAA and HTN-ICH groups had similar age (66.9 vs 67.1), sex, and leukoaraiosis volumes (31 vs 30 mL, all p > 0.8).

  22. Reference Tissue-Based Kinetic Evaluation of 18F-AV-1451 for Tau Imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2016-09-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The goal of this paper was to evaluate the in vivo kinetics of the novel tau-specific PET radioligand 18 F-AV-1451 in cognitively healthy control (HC) and Alzheimer disease (AD) subjects, using reference region analyses.

  23. Prevalence of Amyloid Positron Emission Tomographic Positivity in Poststroke Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Stroke 2016-08-18 Brain scans and imaging

    Thirty-eight (68%) patients who consented to PET imaging had PS-MCI.

  24. In Vivo Tau, Amyloid, and Gray Matter Profiles in the Aging Brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2016-07-01 Brain scans and imaging

    We found that Tau and amyloid-β deposits are associated with distinctive spatial patterns of brain tissue loss.

  25. 18F-AV-1451 tau PET imaging correlates strongly with tau neuropathology in MAPT mutation carriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2016-06-29 Brain scans and imaging

    Tau positron emission tomography ligands provide the novel possibility to image tau pathology in vivo However, little is known about how in vivo brain uptake of tau positron emission tomography ligands relates to tau aggregates observed post-mortem.

  26. Impact of Training Method on the Robustness of the Visual Assessment of 18F-Florbetaben PET Scans: Results from a Phase-3 Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2016-01-28 End-of-life care

    Florbetaben scans were assessed visually and quantitatively, and results were compared with amyloid plaque scores.

  27. Amyloid positron emission tomography and cognitive reserve

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. World journal of radiology 2015-12-28 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by a non-linear progressive course and several aspects influence the relationship between cerebral amount of AD pathology and the clinical expression of the disease.

  28. Imaging β-amyloid using [(18)F]flutemetamol positron emission tomography: from dosimetry to clinical diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2015-10-06 Brain scans and imaging

    In Alzheimer's disease (AD), the deposition of β-amyloid (Aβ) is hypothesized to result in a series of secondary neurodegenerative processes, leading ultimately to synaptic dysfunction and neuronal loss.

  29. Clinical use of amyloid-positron emission tomography neuroimaging: Practical and bioethical considerations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2015-07-26 Brain scans and imaging

    Until recently, estimation of β-amyloid plaque density as a key element for identifying Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology as the cause of cognitive impairment was only possible at autopsy.

  30. [(18)F]Florbetaben: a review in β-amyloid PET imaging in cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. CNS drugs 2015-07 Brain scans and imaging

    Intravenous (18)F-labelled florbetaben ([(18)F]florbetaben) [Neuraceq™] is a polyethylene glycol stilbene derivative that is approved in the USA, EU and South Korea for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of the brain.

  31. The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative 2 PET Core: 2015

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2015-07-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The PET Core has demonstrated a variety of methods for the standardization of biomarkers such as florbetapir PET in a multicenter setting.

  32. [(18)F]flutemetamol amyloid positron emission tomography in preclinical and symptomatic Alzheimer's disease: specific detection of advanced phases of amyloid-β pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2015-06-30 End-of-life care

    [(18)F]flutemetamol amyloid PET detects primarily advanced stages of Aβ pathology in preclinical and symptomatic AD cases.

  33. Florbetapir positron emission tomography and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2015-04-24 Tau biomarkers

    In HC and MCI subjects, FBP PET anterior and posterior cingulate and composite standard uptake value ratios correlated with CSF amyloid beta (Aβ1-42) and tau/Aβ1-42 ratios.

  34. Amyloid biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Trends in pharmacological sciences 2015-04-01 Tau biomarkers

    Aggregation of amyloid-β (Aβ) into oligomers, fibrils, and plaques is central in the molecular pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), and is the main focus of AD drug development.

  35. FIBT versus florbetaben and PiB: a preclinical comparison study with amyloid-PET in transgenic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. EJNMMI research 2015-03-28 Brain scans and imaging

    We found that FIBT (2-(p-methylaminophenyl)-7-(2-[(18)F]fluoroethoxy)imidazo[2,1-b]benzothiazole) compares favorably to florbetaben as a high-contrasting PET radiopharmaceutical for imaging Aβ pathology.

  36. Cross-sectional comparison of small animal [18F]-florbetaben amyloid-PET between transgenic AD mouse models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. PloS one 2015-02-23 Brain scans and imaging

    We aimed to compare [18F]-florbetaben PET imaging in four transgenic mouse strains modelling Alzheimer's disease (AD), with the main focus on APPswe/PS2 mice and C57Bl/6 mice serving as controls (WT).

  37. Beta-amyloid imaging with florbetaben

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Clinical and translational imaging 2015-02-12 Treatments

    Florbetaben is a fluorine-18 ( 18 F)-labeled stilbene derivative that was developed as a positron emission tomography (PET) tracer for routine clinical application to visualize β-amyloid plaques in the Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain.

  38. Amyloid PET imaging: applications beyond Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Clinical and translational imaging 2015-01-21 Brain scans and imaging

    As a biomarker of beta-amyloid, positron emission tomography (PET) amyloid imaging offers a unique opportunity to detect the presence of this protein in the human body during life.

  39. Tau, amyloid, and hypometabolism in a patient with posterior cortical atrophy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2014-12-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Determining the relative contribution of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles to brain dysfunction in Alzheimer disease is critical for therapeutic approaches, but until recently could only be assessed at autopsy.

  40. Plasma Aβ but not tau is related to brain PiB retention in early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. ACS chemical neuroscience 2014-08-13 Biomarkers

    Recent advances in biomarkers provide the possibility of early or preclinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's pathology.

  41. Insulin resistance predicts brain amyloid deposition in late middle-aged adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-07-17 Brain scans and imaging

    This is the first human study to demonstrate that insulin resistance may contribute to amyloid deposition in brain regions affected by AD.

  42. Cognitive reserve and clinical expression of Alzheimer's disease: evidence and implications for brain PET imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. American journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2014-04-25 Risk factors

    Cognitive reserve (CR) refers to the hypothesized capacity of an adult brain to cope with brain damage in order to minimize symptomatology.

  43. TDP-43 is a key player in the clinical features associated with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2014-03-23 Brain scans and imaging

    The aim of this study was to determine whether the TAR DNA-binding protein of 43 kDa (TDP-43) has any independent effect on the clinical and neuroimaging features typically ascribed to Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology, and whether TDP-43 pathology could help shed light on the phenomenon of resilient cognition in AD.

  44. Amyloid PET imaging in Alzheimer's disease: a comparison of three radiotracers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2014-03-20 Brain scans and imaging

    Despite differing white and grey matter retention characteristics, cortical retention for each (18)F tracer was highly correlated with that of PiB, enabling conversion of thresholds across tracer measurement scales with a high level of internal consistency.

  45. Florbetapir (18F) for brain amyloid positron emission tomography: highlights on the European marketing approval

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-01-10 Brain scans and imaging

    Florbetapir (18F) for brain amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) imaging has been recently approved in Europe to estimate β-amyloid neuritic plaque density in the brain when the subject is still alive.

  46. Novel plasma biomarker surrogating cerebral amyloid deposition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and biological sciences 2014-01-01 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common and devastating dementia.

  47. Comparing positron emission tomography imaging and cerebrospinal fluid measurements of β-amyloid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2013-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    CSF and amyloid PET measurements of Aβ were consistent in the majority of subjects in the cross-sectional and longitudinal populations.

  48. Prospective flutemetamol positron emission tomography and histopathology in normal pressure hydrocephalus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neuro-degenerative diseases 2013-11-27 Brain scans and imaging

    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).

  49. Regional variability of imaging biomarkers in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2013-11-05 Brain scans and imaging

    Major imaging biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease include amyloid deposition [imaged with [(11)C]Pittsburgh compound B (PiB) PET], altered glucose metabolism (imaged with [(18)F]fluro-deoxyglucose PET), and structural atrophy (imaged by MRI).

  50. Amyloid imaging in cognitively normal individuals, at-risk populations and preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2013-03-05 Treatments

    Recent developments of PET amyloid ligands have made it possible to visualize the presence of Aβ deposition in the brain of living participants and to assess the consequences especially in individuals with no objective sign of cognitive deficits.

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