"Our work represents an important step toward the harmonization of tau tracers," Zimmer said, "and the results might provide insights into initiatives to create a universal scale for tau tracers." ...

Strategies for Developing Tau Imaging Tracers The heterogenous ultrastructural conformations of tau aggregates pose a challenge for radiotracer design. There are several groups working on ...

Dr. Dean F. Wong from Johns Hopkins reports on the identification of a promising second-generation positron emission tomography (PET) tracer for imaging and measuring tau pathology, contributing ...

One exam, a tau PET scan, relies on a radioactive tracer injected into the body to visualize tau protein in the brain. But it ...