Posted 21 January 2004

Close window to return to the news story

Are you looking at the future of Alzheimer's diagnosis? In these PET images from Bill Klunk, Chester Mathis, and colleagues, their tracer Pittsburgh Compound-B (PIB) lights up cortical areas laden with amyloid in AD patients. The results of a PIB-PET study conducted at Uppsala University in Sweden appeared today in the online edition of the Annals of Neurology. As it happens, the work of Klunk, Mathis, and their collaborators was featured tonight in the PBS television special called "The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's."