18F-florbetaben had high sensitivity for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), clearly distinguished patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) from AD and provided results comparable to those reported with 11C-Pittsburgh Compound B in a variety of neurodegenerative diseases, according to a study in the August issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

The University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind., has added Carestream Molecular Imaging’s Albira system to its In Vivo Imaging Core, part of the Notre Dame Integrated Imaging Facility.