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Keywords: PET AD.jpg The red and yellow colors indicate that Pittsburgh Compound B PiB uptake is higher in the brain of the person with AD than in the cognitively healthy person PiB binds to beta-amyloid plaques in the brain and it can be imaged using PET scans http //www nia nih gov/Alzheimers/Publications/Unraveling/Part2/changing htm/Decades_Discovery/94 html 2009-10-27 The Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral ADEAR Center NIH PD-USGov Positron emission tomography Alzheimer's disease |