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Alzheimer disease, in living color

Nature Neuroscience volume 8, pages 404–405 (2005)Cite this article

A new study shows that amyloid plaques tagged with fluorinated ligand can be detected with 19F MRI in transgenic mice. The superior signal to noise of this technique is a major step toward visualizing the histopathology of Alzheimer disease in living patients.

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