Chinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and Neurosurgery (Mar 2014)

Recent progress of PET in Alzheimer's disease

  • Na NIU,
  • Fang LI

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 3
pp. 181 – 185

Abstract

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Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia in the current elderly population. PET can detect pathophysiological changes in Alzheimer's disease with different radiotracers. This paper will focus on evaluating the value of 18F-FDG, amyloid and tau protein PET imaging in Alzheimer's disease. PET has been demonstrated to play an important role in the research of etiology, early diagnosis, differential dignosis, prognosis and medical treatment of Alzheimer's disease. doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1672-6731.2014.03.007

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