Relationship Between 18F‐AV‐1451 Binding in Human Brain and Tissue Alterations Defined by Quantitative Gradient Recalled Echo (qGRE) MRI Measurements

Satya V.V.N. Kothapalli, Tammie L.S. Benzinger, Brian A. Gordon, Cihat Eldeniz, Charles F Hildebolt, Manu S. Goyal, John C. Morris, Dmitriy A. Yablonskiy · 2025

Read Relationship Between 18F‐AV‐1451 Binding in Human Brain and Tissue Alterations Defined by Quantitative Gradient Recalled Echo (qGRE) MRI Measurements by Satya V.V.N. Kothapalli, Tammie L.S. Benzinger, Brian A. Gordon, Cihat Eldeniz, Charles F Hildebolt, Manu S. Goyal, John C. Morris, Dmitriy A. Yablonskiy (2025) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-11713848.txt.

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Kothapalli and co-authors probe a tau scan tracer in Alzheimer research in a 2025 study. The tracer lights up tau tangles in the living brain, but it also sticks in iron-rich areas, which muddies readings. Sixty-eight older adults had both the tau scan and a special MRI that can tell tissue loss from iron buildup.

In memory regions, tracer levels rose with both early tissue loss signals and iron scores. Models that joined volume, iron, and loss measures predicted tracer uptake far better than volume alone. Readers learn that iron shapes tau scan results, a fact that matters for trial design and diagnosis.

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CREATORSatya V.V.N. Kothapalli, Tammie L.S. Benzinger, Brian A. Gordon, Cihat Eldeniz, Charles F Hildebolt, Manu S. Goyal, John C. Morris, Dmitriy A. Yablonskiy
YEAR2025
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE3 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11713848

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