Quantitative SPECT leads to improved performance in discrimination tasks related to prodromal Alzheimer's disease.
El Fakhri G, Kijewski M, Albert M, Johnson K, Moore S. Quantitative SPECT leads to improved performance in discrimination tasks related to prodromal Alzheimer's disease. Journal Of Nuclear Medicine 2004, 45: 2026-31. PMID: 15585477.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsProdromal Alzheimer's diseaseMemory problemsAlzheimer's diseaseDiagnosis of prodromal Alzheimer's diseaseDiagnosis of prodromal ADClinical tasksMRI volume estimationsVariable collimator responseFollow-up periodDementiaGeneral spectral methodConverter groupFollow-upProdromal ADUniform attenuation mapQuestion groupsPairwise discriminant analysisSubjectsQuantitative approachDiscrimination accuracyAnterior cingulate gyrusAttenuation mapNonuniform attenuation mapNormal groupCingulate gyrus