In previous studies, a research group led by Associate Professor Katsutoshi Furukawa and Professor Hiroyuki Arai at Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University visualized senile plaques of Alzheimer’s disease in vivo with BF-227, the amyloid PET tracer. This research group, in collaboration with a research group led by Professor Shu-ichi Ikeda at Shinshu University, has successfully visualized accumulation of transthyretin, another kind of amyloid, in the myocardium of patients with systemic amyloidosis, also using BF-227. This achievement has a great clinical implication since PET imaging is much less invasive than biopsy.

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Professor Hiroyuki Arai

Department of Geriatrics and Gerontology

Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University

Address: 4-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8575 Japan

TEL: +81-22-717-7182 E-mail：harai*idac.tohoku.ac.jp (Replace * with @)