Comparison of 6-[18F]FDOPA PET with Nigrosome 1 detection in patients with parkinsonism

Abstract Background The functional 6-[18F]FDOPA positron emission tomography (PET) can be a helpful tool in differentiating parkinsonism with dopaminergic deficiency from clinically similar differential diagnoses. Furthermore, in T2*/susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) magnetic resonance imaging (...

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Main Authors: Enrico Michler, Daniel Kaiser, Kiriaki Eleftheriadou, Björn Falkenburger, Jörg Kotzerke, Sebastian Hoberück
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2021-02-01
Series:EJNMMI Research
Subjects:
PET
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13550-021-00758-x