PET Scans of the Brains of Alzheimer's Patients (IMAGE)

Johns Hopkins Medicine

PET Scans of the Brains of Alzheimer's Patients

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PET scans of the brains of Alzheimer's patients successfully show a range of tau across a variety of patients and demonstrates the difference in regional patterns between amyloid and tau.

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Dean Wong, M.D., Ph.D., Ayon Nandi, M.S., and Hiroto Kuwabara, M.D., Ph.D.

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