The Assessment of Brain Tau Burden in Participants with Parkinson's Disease in the PPMI Study (PPMI Tau PET Imaging) is a companion study to the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative Clinical protocol (PPMI-002; NCT04477785). After consenting to the PPMI Clinical protocol, participants interested in completing an additional scan under this study will be asked to complete consent, additional activities, and one [18F]PI-2620 PET imaging scan as part of this study. Enrollment in the PPMI Tau PET Imaging companion study will facilitate comparison of tau deposition to clinical, imaging, blood and CSF tau already acquired in these PPMI participants under the PPMI Clinical protocol. The primary goal of this imaging study is to test whether positron emission tomography (PET) with [18F] PI-2620 can visualize in vivo brain tau deposition in participants with PD. The secondary goal is to evaluate tau deposition in PD LRRK2 mutation carriers given recent data that tau pathology may be present in those individuals.
The Assessment of Brain Tau Burden in Participants with Parkinson's Disease in the PPMI Study (PPMI Tau PET Imaging) will evaluate if [18F] PI-2620 facilitates better understanding of Tau deposition in the brain in Parkinson's disease (PD).