A Preliminary Study of 18F-AV-45 in Alzheimer's Disease and Healthy Elderly Volunteers

Summary

A preliminary study to test how florbetapir F 18 (18F-AV-45) acts in the brains and bodies of healthy elderly people and patients with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) by using a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner.

Timeline

Start

2007-06

Primary completion

2008-01

Completion

2008-01

Publications

• Results Wong DF, Rosenberg PB, Zhou Y, Kumar A, Raymont V, Ravert HT, Dannals RF, Nandi A, Brasic JR, Ye W, Hilton J, Lyketsos C, Kung HF, Joshi AD, Skovronsky DM, Pontecorvo MJ. In vivo imaging of amyloid deposition in Alzheimer disease using the radioligand 18F-AV-45 (florbetapir [corrected] F 18). J Nucl Med. 2010 Jun;51(6):913-20. doi: 10.2967/jnumed.109.069088.

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