New semiquantitative assessment of 123I-FP-CIT by an anatomical standardization method

• Published in: Annals of nuclear medicine Vol. 20; no. 7; p. 477
• Main Authors: Takada, Seiko, Yoshimura, Mana, Shindo, Hiroaki, Saito, Kazuhiro, Koizumi, Kiyoshi, Utsumi, Hiroya, Abe, Kimihiko
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Japan 01.08.2006
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Brain - pathology; Essential Tremor - diagnosis; Female; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Iodine Radioisotopes; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - standards; Male; Middle Aged; Models, Anatomic; Parkinson Disease - diagnosis; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon - methods; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon - standards

We evaluated a new semiquantitative procedure to more easily and objectively estimate the striatal uptake of 123I-FP-CIT in patients with Parkinsonian syndrome (PS) and essential tremor (ET), using an anatomical standardization method, the Neurostat. Eleven patients with PS and 8 with ET were examin...