Regional cerebral blood flow pattern in normal young and aged volunteers: A 99mTc-HMPAO SPET study

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1329-1337

  Catafau, Ana M ^a,b   Lomeña, Francisco J ^a   Pavia, Javier ^a   Parellada, Eduard ^a   Bernardo, Miquel ^a   Setoain, Jordi ^a   Tolosa, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Hexamethylpropylene amine oxime; Normal aged subjects; Normal young subjects; Regional cerebral blood flow; Single photon emission tomography

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; OXIMES; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0029800611     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01367588     Document Type: Article

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