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SUBMITTER: Klunk WE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4300247 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Klunk William E WE Koeppe Robert A RA Price Julie C JC Benzinger Tammie L TL Devous Michael D MD Jagust William J WJ Johnson Keith A KA Mathis Chester A CA Minhas Davneet D Pontecorvo Michael J MJ Rowe Christopher C CC Skovronsky Daniel M DM Mintun Mark A MA
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 20141028 1
Although amyloid imaging with PiB-PET ([C-11]Pittsburgh Compound-B positron emission tomography), and now with F-18-labeled tracers, has produced remarkably consistent qualitative findings across a large number of centers, there has been considerable variability in the exact numbers reported as quantitative outcome measures of tracer retention. In some cases this is as trivial as the choice of units, in some cases it is scanner dependent, and of course, different tracers yield different numbers. ...[more]