New PET Tracer Identified for Imaging Tau in Alzheimer's Disease Patients (VIDEO)

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Dr. Dean F. Wong from Johns Hopkins reports on the identification of a promising second-generation positron emission tomography (PET) tracer for imaging and measuring tau pathology, contributing to understanding of Alzheimer's and related dementias. The research is featured in the December 2018 issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (http://jnm.snmjournals.org).

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