Constant blood flow reduction in premotor frontal lobe regions in ALS with dementia - A SPECT study with 3D-SSP

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 340-344

  Ishikawa, T ^a   Morita, M ^a   Nakano, I ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with dementia; Premotor frontal lobe region; Regional cerebral blood flow; Single photon emission computed tomography; Three dimensional stereotactic surface projection

Indexed keywords

IODINE 123;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 35148852708     PISSN: 00016314     EISSN: 16000404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0404.2007.00876.x     Document Type: Article

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