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Overview
Recently, the functional neuroimaging modalities of SPECT and PET have shown quite similar ability to diagnose dementia as clinical exam [1]. SPECT's ability to differentiate vascular type from Alzheimer disease types of dementias appears to be superior to clinical exam.[2]
References
- ↑ Bonte FJ, Harris TS, Hynan LS, Bigio EH, White CL (2006). "Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT in the differential diagnosis of the dementias with histopathologic confirmation". Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 31 (7): 376–8. doi:10.1097/01.rlu.0000222736.81365.63. PMID 16785801. Retrieved 2012-08-30. Unknown parameter
|month=ignored (help) - ↑ Dougall NJ, Bruggink S, Ebmeier KP (2004). "Systematic review of the diagnostic accuracy of 99mTc-HMPAO-SPECT in dementia". The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry : Official Journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 12 (6): 554–70. doi:10.1176/appi.ajgp.12.6.554. PMID 15545324.
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