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What conditions is a pet scan using the amyvid tracer designed to help diagnose?
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Amyvid (florbetapir) was approved in 2012 as a diagnostic tool for Alzheimer's Disease.
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For a bone scan what is the purpose of doing some scans before/during the injection of the tracer? I thought that the scans were after it was absorbed
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