Medically reviewed by Doru Paul, MD Key Takeaways A PET scan shows changes in your body's cells to detect diseases.Prepare for the PET scan according to your healthcare provider's instructions, like ...

Tau proteins play an important role in our normal brain function, mainly by helping to stabilize neurons in the brain. But in Alzheimer’s disease, tau proteins can misfold and tangle inside neurons.

UZ Leuven is the first hospital in the world to use a revolutionary scanner for brain research in patients. The new, highly ...

A team of researchers at the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC has identified important differences in how early ...

Biologically speaking, there is no organ as vital or complex as the brain. And yet, the brain still remains somewhat a of a mystery-there’s a lot that even experts don’t know. Another troubling fact ...

Variable physiological [18 F]FDG uptake patterns and a lack of labelled data make it challenging to automatically distinguish normal from pathological suspicious uptake in whole-body PET/CT imaging.

Tau proteins play an important role in Alzheimer's disease. Tau helps to stabilize neurons in the brain, but in Alzheimer's disease, tau proteins can misfold and tangle inside neurons. These tangles ...