Novel radiotracer produces high quality images of ‘Alzheimer’s disease of the heart’

Representative whole body planar images of 99mTc-p5+14 of healthy subjects and, with SPECT/CT images, of a patient with ATTRv cardiac amyloidosis at 1 h post injection showing no uptake in the heart of the healthy subject and intense signal in the heart of the patient using both planar and SPECT/CT imaging. Credit: JS Wall et al., Amyloidosis and Cancer Theranostics Program, University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, Knoxville, TN. A newly developed radiotracer can generate high quality and readily interpretable images of cardiac amyloidosis, a condition referred to as Read More

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