Existing Pittsburgh Compound B - Positron Emission Tomography Thresholds are Too High: Statistical and Pathological Validation
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Existing Pittsburgh Compound-B positron emission tomography thresholds are too high: statistical and pathological evaluation.
Amyloid-β, a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, begins accumulating up to two decades before the onset of dementia, and can be detected in vivo applying amyloid-β positron emission tomography tracers such as carbon-11-labelled Pittsburgh compound-B. A variety of thresholds have been applied in the literature to define Pittsburgh compound-B positron emission tomography positivity, but the ability ...
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