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Open AccessPlasma Aβ analysis using magnetically-labeled immunoassays and PET 18F-florbetapir binding in non-demented patients with major depressive disorder
An increased level of brain amyloid deposition and a decreased level of cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) Aβ42 are currently considered reliable biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease (AD); however, the usefulness of pla...
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Open AccessVisualization of ischemic stroke-related changes on 18F-THK-5351 positron emission tomography
The 18F-THK-5351 radiotracer has been used to detect the in vivo tau protein distribution in patients with tauopathy, such as Alzheimer’s disease and corticobasal syndrome. In addition, 18F-THK-5351 can also moni...
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Open AccessFocused Ultrasound-Induced Blood-Brain Barrier Opening Enhances GSK-3 Inhibitor Delivery for Amyloid-Beta Plaque Reduction
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that is the leading cause of age-related dementia. Currently, therapeutic agent delivery to the CNS is a valued approach for AD therapy. Unfortunately, t...
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Open AccessCharacteristic patterns of inter- and intra-hemispheric metabolic connectivity in patients with stable and progressive mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease
The change in hypometabolism affects the regional links in the brain network. Here, to understand the underlying brain metabolic network deficits during the early stage and disease evolution of AD (Alzheimer d...
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Open AccessQuantitative study of 18F-(+)DTBZ image: comparison of PET template-based and MRI based image analysis
[18F]9-fluoropropyl-(+)-dihydrotetrabenazine (18F-(+)DTBZ) is a recently developed PET tracer to investigate the vesicular monoamine transporter type 2 (VMAT2) activity in measuring dopaminergic degeneration in v...
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Open AccessA comparison between spinal cord infarction and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders: Clinical and MRI studies
This study aims to investigate the clinical features and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings in patients with spinal cord infarction (SCI) and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSDs). Over a per...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Plasma Aβ analysis using magnetically-labeled immunoassays and PET 18F-florbetapir binding in non-demented patients with major depressive disorder
A correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML and PDF versions of this paper. The error has been fixed in the paper.
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Open AccessPlasmon-Activated Water Reduces Amyloid Burden and Improves Memory in Animals with Alzheimer’s Disease
With the great extension of the human lifespan in recent times, many aging diseases have inevitably followed. Dementia is one of the most-commom neurodegenerative aging diseases, in which inflammation-related ...
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Open AccessPlasma amyloid assay as a pre-screening tool for amyloid positron emission tomography imaging in early stage Alzheimer’s disease
Due to the high cost and high failure rate of ascertaining amyloid positron emission tomography positivity (PET+) in patients with earlier stage Alzheimer’s disease (AD), an effective pre-screening tool for am...
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Open AccessInvestigation of reactive astrogliosis effect on post-stroke cognitive impairment
The aim of this study is to investigate the associations between post-stroke cognitive impairment (PSCI) severity and reactive astrogliosis (RA) extent on normalized 18F-THK-5351 positron-emission tomography (PET...
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Open Access18F-THK5351 PET imaging in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy: associations with core domains and diagnostic certainty
The associations of 18F-THK5351 tau positron emission tomography (PET) findings with core domains of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and its diagnostic certainty have yet to be fully elucidated. The 18F-THK5...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: 18F-THK5351 PET imaging in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy: associations with core domains and diagnostic certainty
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Detection of Alzheimer’s disease using ECD SPECT images by transfer learning from FDG PET
To develop a practical method to rapidly utilize a deep learning model to automatically extract image features based on a small number of SPECT brain perfusion images in general clinics to objectively evaluate...
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Open AccessHuman biodistribution and radiation dosimetry for the tau tracer [18F]Florzolotau in healthy subjects
Tau pathology plays a crucial role in neurodegeneration diseases including Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and non-AD diseases such as progressive supranuclear palsy. Tau positron emission tomography (PET) is an in-v...