Amyloid Imaging in Aging and Dementia: Testing the Amyloid Hypothesis In Vivo

Amyloid imaging represents a major advance in neuroscience, enabling the detection and quantification of pathologic protein aggregations in the brain. In this review we survey current amyloid imaging techniques, focusing on positron emission tomography (PET) with ^{11}carbon-labelled Pittsburgh Comp...

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Main Authors: G. D. Rabinovici, W. J. Jagust
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2009-01-01
Series:Behavioural Neurology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/BEN-2009-0232