Brain hypometabolism in rare genetic neurodegenerative disease: Niemann-Pick disease type C, spinocerebellar ataxia and Huntington disease assessed by FDG PET

Brain metabolic imaging using 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) Positron Emission Tomography (PET) with contemporaneous low-dose CT may be used to assess neurodegenerative diseases. In contrast to oncology whole-body FDG PET, qualitative assessment alone in brain FDG PET is subjective and vulnerable to v...

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Main Authors: Yung Hsiang Kao, Melissa Cheng, Dennis Velakoulis, Mark Walterfang, Dinesh Sivaratnam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Mashhad University of Medical Sciences 2021-07-01
Series:Asia Oceania Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Biology
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Online Access:https://aojnmb.mums.ac.ir/article_17138_8094ccd0225fb402b1a2e382101c6a69.pdf