Image of the Month
Kerri Wachter
Clinical Neurology News
December 2008 (Vol. 4, Issue 12, Page 8) Full Text |
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Researchers have been able to visualize the amyloid plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease in vivo, thanks to PET imaging tracers like carbon-11-labeled Pittsburgh Compound-B (PIB). That imaging is now being used to examine the relationships between factors associated with AD, cognition, and pathological disease burden. To see what is being learned because of this imaging technique,