One-Stop Shop: 18 F-Flortaucipir PET Differentiates Amyloid-Positive and -Negative Forms of Neurodegenerative Diseases

Tau protein aggregations are a hallmark of amyloid-associated Alzheimer disease and some forms of non-amyloid-associated frontotemporal lobar degeneration. In recent years, several tracers for in vivo tau imaging have been under evaluation. This study investigated the ability of F-flortaucipir PET n...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2021-02, Vol.62 (2), p.240-246
Hauptverfasser: Hammes, Jochen, Bischof, Gérard N, Bohn, Karl P, Onur, Özgür, Schneider, Anja, Fliessbach, Klaus, Hönig, Merle C, Jessen, Frank, Neumaier, Bernd, Drzezga, Alexander, van Eimeren, Thilo
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Zusammenfassung:Tau protein aggregations are a hallmark of amyloid-associated Alzheimer disease and some forms of non-amyloid-associated frontotemporal lobar degeneration. In recent years, several tracers for in vivo tau imaging have been under evaluation. This study investigated the ability of F-flortaucipir PET not only to assess tau positivity but also to differentiate between amyloid-positive and -negative forms of neurodegeneration on the basis of different F-flortaucipir PET signatures. The F-flortaucipir PET data of 35 patients with amyloid-positive neurodegeneration, 19 patients with amyloid-negative neurodegeneration, and 17 healthy controls were included in a data-driven scaled subprofile model (SSM)/principal-component analysis (PCA) identifying spatial covariance patterns. SSM/PCA pattern expression strengths were tested for their ability to predict amyloid status in a receiver-operating-characteristic analysis and validated with a leave-one-out approach. Pattern expression strengths predicted amyloid status with a sensitivity of 0.94 and a specificity of 0.83. A support vector machine classification based on pattern expression strengths in 2 different SSM/PCA components yielded a prediction accuracy of 98%. Anatomically, prediction performance was driven by parietooccipital gray matter in amyloid-positive patients versus predominant white matter binding in amyloid-negative patients. SSM/PCA-derived binding patterns of F-flortaucipir differentiate between amyloid-positive and -negative neurodegenerative diseases with high accuracy. F-flortaucipir PET alone may convey additional information equivalent to that from amyloid PET. Together with a perfusion-weighted early-phase acquisition ( F-FDG PET-equivalent), a single scan potentially contains comprehensive information on amyloid (A), tau (T), and neurodegeneration (N) status as required by recent biomarker classification algorithms (A/T/N).
ISSN:0161-5505
1535-5667
2159-662X
DOI:10.2967/jnumed.120.244061