Impact of the cerebrospinal fluid-mask algorithm on the diagnostic performance of 123I-Ioflupane SPECT: an investigation of parkinsonian syndromes

Abstract Background A cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-mask algorithm has been developed to reduce the adverse influence of CSF-low-counts on the diagnostic utility of the specific binding ratio (SBR) index calculated with Southampton method. We assessed the effect of the CSF-mask algorithm on the diagnost...

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Main Authors: Yu Iwabuchi, Tadaki Nakahara, Masashi Kameyama, Yohji Matsusaka, Yasuhiro Minami, Daisuke Ito, Hajime Tabuchi, Yoshitake Yamada, Masahiro Jinzaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-09-01
Series:EJNMMI Research
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13550-019-0558-x