Statistical image analysis of cerebral blood flow in vascular dementia with small-vessel disease

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 505-511

  Yoshikawa, Takuya ^a,b   Murase, Kenya ^a   Oku, Naohiko ^a   Kitagawa, Kazuo ^a   Imaizumi, Masao ^a   Takasawa, Masashi ^a   Nishikawa, Takashi ^a   Matsumoto, Masayasu ^a   Hatazawa, Jun ^a   Hori, Masatsugu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

3 dimensional stereotactic surface projections; Cerebral blood flow; Fractal analysis; SPECT; Vascular dementia

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MICROANGIOPATHY; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION PROCESS; AGED; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0037978051     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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