Evaluation of brain perfusion in specific Brodmann areas in Frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer disease using automated 3-D voxel based analysis

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Valotassiou, V ^a   Papatriantafyllou, J ^b   Sifakis, N ^c   Karageorgiou, C ^b   Tsougos, I ^a   Tzavara, C ^a   Zerva, C ^c   Georgoulias, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^b G GENNIMATAS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Gamma camera,SPECT,PET PET CT,coronary CT angiography (CTA); Medicalimage reconstruction methods and algorithms, computer aided so

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; COMPUTER-AIDED; CORONARY CT ANGIOGRAPHIES; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIAS; MINI-MENTAL STATE EXAMINATIONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL; VOXEL-BASED ANALYSIS;

DIAGNOSIS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

BRAIN;

EID: 71049163782     PISSN: 17480221     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/4/05/P05020     Document Type: Article

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