First published online
August 14, 2008, 10.2967/jnumed.108.051946
Longitudinal Cerebral Blood Flow and Amyloid Deposition: An Emerging Pattern?
Jitka Sojkova1,2,
Lori Beason-Held1,
Yun Zhou2,
Yang An1,
Michael A. Kraut2,
Weigo Ye2,
Luigi Ferrucci1,
Chester A. Mathis3,
William E. Klunk4,
Dean F. Wong2,5,6 and
Susan M. Resnick1
1 National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; 2 Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; 3 Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 4 Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 5 Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; and 6 Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

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FIGURE 1. Scatterplot of association between age and mean cortical DVR. With 2-group K-mean cluster analysis, 2 clusters of individuals were identified: one with higher 11C-PIB retention and another with lower 11C-PIB retention, as determined by mean cortical DVR.
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FIGURE 2. Longitudinal rCBF increases (red) and decreases (blue) over 8-y interval in group with high amyloid deposition, compared with group with low amyloid deposition. In lower row, differences in longitudinal rCBF changes are overlaid on selected axial images showing voxel-based differences in amyloid deposition between high– and low–11C-PIB groups.
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