Recent progress of PET in Alzheimer's disease

Na NIU, Fang LI

Abstract


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


Keywords


Positron-emission tomography; Alzheimer disease; Review

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