TY - JOUR T1 - Update on Appropriate Use Criteria for Amyloid PET Imaging: Dementia Experts, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Education JF - Journal of Nuclear Medicine JO - J Nucl Med SP - 1011 LP - 1013 DO - 10.2967/jnumed.113.127068 VL - 54 IS - 7 AU - Keith A. Johnson AU - Satoshi Minoshima AU - Nicolaas I. Bohnen AU - Kevin J. Donohoe AU - Norman L. Foster AU - Peter Herscovitch AU - Jason H. Karlawish AU - Christopher C. Rowe AU - Saima Hedrick AU - Virginia Pappas AU - Maria C. Carrillo AU - Dean M. Hartley Y1 - 2013/07/01 UR - http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/54/7/1011.abstract N2 - Amyloid PET imaging is a novel diagnostic test that can detect in living humans one of the two defining pathologic lesions of Alzheimer disease, amyloid-β deposition in the brain. The Amyloid Imaging Task Force of the Alzheimer’s Association and Society for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging previously published appropriate use criteria for amyloid PET as an important tool for increasing the certainty of a diagnosis of Alzheimer disease in specific patient populations. Here, the task force further clarifies and expands 3 topics discussed in the original paper: first, defining dementia experts and their use of proper documentation to demonstrate the medical necessity of an amyloid PET scan; second, identifying a specific subset of individuals with mild cognitive impairment for whom an amyloid PET scan is appropriate; and finally, developing educational programs to increase awareness of the amyloid PET appropriate use criteria and providing instructions on how this test should be used in the clinical decision-making process. ER -