An easy Z-score imaging system for discrimination between very early Alzheimer's disease and controls using brain perfusion SPECT in a multicentre study

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 199-205

  Matsuda, Hiroshi ^a   Mizumura, Sunao ^a   Nagao, Takehiko ^a   Ota, Tsuneyoshi ^a   Iizuka, Tomomichi ^a   Nemoto, Kiyotaka ^b   Kimura, Michihiro ^b   Tateno, Amane ^b   Ishiwata, Akiko ^b   Kuji, Ichiei ^b   Arai, Heii ^b   Homma, Akira ^b  

^a National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Mild cognitive impairment; SPECT

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE;

EID: 33846686712     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e328013eb8b     Document Type: Article

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