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|Articles|May 10, 2012

Poll of the Week: Reading PET Studies for Alzheimer's?

New diagnostic agents for use with PET imaging are improving identification of beta-amyloid, the brain plaque associated with Alzheimer’s disease. But there are some concerns about training to accurately read these studies.

New radioactive diagnostic agents for use with PET imaging are improving identification of beta-amyloid, the brain plaque associated with Alzheimer’s disease. But there are some concerns that radiologists and technologists don’t have enough training to accurately read these PET studies. What do you think?

 

 

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