Medical Imaging Technology
Online ISSN : 2185-3193
Print ISSN : 0288-450X
ISSN-L : 0288-450X
Main Topics / Frontier Technology in Imaging Modality for Dementia
The Role of Tau PET Imaging in the Diagnosis of Dementia
Fumitoshi NIWAHitoshi SHIMADA
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2016 Volume 34 Issue 1 Pages 22-25

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On the clinical management of neurodegenerative dementia including Alzheimer's disease (AD), molecular imaging using positron emission topography (PET), which makes it possible to detect in vivo pathological modification in the brain, have been developed. While amyloid PET imaging implies an important role for diagnosis of AD, tau PET imaging also would be useful as a biomarker to diagnose tauopathies including non-AD dementia as well as to evaluate disease severity.

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