2024
Associations of Physical Activity Engagement with Cerebral Amyloid-β and Tau from Midlife
Gonzales M, Kojis D, Spartano N, Thibault E, DeCarli C, Fakhri G, Johnson K, Beiser A, Seshadri S. Associations of Physical Activity Engagement with Cerebral Amyloid-β and Tau from Midlife. Journal Of Alzheimer's Disease 2024, 100: 935-943. PMID: 39031362, DOI: 10.3233/jad-240322.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPhysical activity indexPhysical activity engagementAssociated with lower dementia riskPhysical activity index scoreAssociation of physical activityActive engagementPhysical activity levelsFramingham Heart StudyCross-sectional associationsCommunity-based cohortCardiovascular risk factorsDementia riskPhysical activityLifestyle interventionHeart StudyLinear regression modelsStratified analysisTau-PET retentionSelf-reportSex disparitiesActivity levelsLate lifeTau positron emission tomographyRisk factorsAge groups
2017
Partial volume correction for PET quantification and its impact on brain network in Alzheimer’s disease
Yang J, Hu C, Guo N, Dutta J, Vaina L, Johnson K, Sepulcre J, Fakhri G, Li Q. Partial volume correction for PET quantification and its impact on brain network in Alzheimer’s disease. Scientific Reports 2017, 7: 13035. PMID: 29026139, PMCID: PMC5638902, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-13339-7.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsQuantitative accuracy of PET imagesSpatial resolution of PET scannersAccuracy of PET imagesPET scannerBrain networksPET imagingQuantitative accuracyPartial volume effectsClassification performanceImage registrationPositron emission tomography quantificationPartial volume correctionSpatial resolutionJoint entropyVolume correctionNetwork structure analysisCorrected imagesVolume effectClinical datasetsParameter settingsPositron emission tomographyClassification testsCompare network propertiesNoise sensitivity