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  1. Head to head comparison of [18F] AV-1451 and [18F] THK5351 for tau imaging in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia 2017-11-16
  2. Optic nerve head and nerve fiber layer in Alzheimer's disease 1991-02-01

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Date range

1991 to 2017

Top journals

  • Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 1
  • European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 1

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  1. Head to head comparison of [18F] AV-1451 and [18F] THK5351 for tau imaging in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2017-11-16 Brain scans and imaging

    AV-1451 is more sensitive and specific to Alzheimer's disease type tau and shows lower off-target binding, while THK5351 may mirror non-specific neurodegeneration.

  2. Optic nerve head and nerve fiber layer in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 1991-02-01 Brain scans and imaging

    We compared (1) the differences in the retinal nerve fiber layer between 26 patients with Alzheimer's disease and 30 age- and race-matched normal controls with use of blue-light high-resolution photography, (2) the differences in disc pallor between 30 patients with Alzheimer's disease and 32 controls with use of a boundary-tracking program and fundus photographs, and (3) the topographic disc variables between 26 patients with Alzheimer's disease and 36 controls with use of an optic nerve head analyzer.

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