TY - JOUR
T1 - New approaches in nuclear medicine for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
AU - Mirzaei, S.
AU - Gelpi, E.
AU - Booij, J.
AU - Rodrigues, M.
AU - Neumann, I.
AU - Zaknun, J.
AU - Koehn, H.
AU - Knoll, P.
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - Dementia, Alzheimer's disease (AD) being the most common cause of it, is a major and growing medical and social problem, particularly in the advanced age, with the highest rate in the population over 75 y. Recent sophisticated therapeutic measures require more sensitive diagnostic tests to recognize early stages of the disease. In this paper, the current neuronuclear imaging literature is reviewed with regard to early and differential diagnosis of dementia. Functional imaging with single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET) could provide the clinician with additional information complementary to morphological assessments, thus contributing to achieve a more adequate diagnosis, and also with information regarding prodromal stages of AD
AB - Dementia, Alzheimer's disease (AD) being the most common cause of it, is a major and growing medical and social problem, particularly in the advanced age, with the highest rate in the population over 75 y. Recent sophisticated therapeutic measures require more sensitive diagnostic tests to recognize early stages of the disease. In this paper, the current neuronuclear imaging literature is reviewed with regard to early and differential diagnosis of dementia. Functional imaging with single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET) could provide the clinician with additional information complementary to morphological assessments, thus contributing to achieve a more adequate diagnosis, and also with information regarding prodromal stages of AD
M3 - Article
C2 - 15975069
SN - 1567-2050
VL - 1
SP - 219
EP - 229
JO - Current Alzheimer research
JF - Current Alzheimer research
IS - 3
ER -