A novel PET imaging method, using the radiotracer 11C-MC1, successfully quantifies COX-2 enzyme levels in the human brain. This technique opens the door for earlier detection, monitoring of disease ...

With this technique, the researchers can detect oxidative stress, which leads to brain damage ... in amounts unnoticeable by all but a PET scan, wherein it lights up the area where the drug ...

At high levels of brain amyloid-beta, women had more aggressive tau accumulation than men, a meta-analysis of longitudinal PET data showed. In cognitively normal ... first tau scan was 71.9 ...