<sup>18</sup>F-FDG PET Imaging in Neurodegenerative Dementing Disorders: Insights into Subtype Classification, Emerging Disease Categories, and Mixed Dementia with Copathologies
Satoshi Minoshima, Donna J. Cross, Tanyaluck Thientunyakit, Norman L. Foster, Alexander Drzezga
Abstract
F-FDG PET is a relatively low cost and widely available imaging modality that can help assess various neurodegenerative disorders in a single test and remains the workhorse in clinical dementia evaluation.
Topics & Concepts
DementiaPositron emission tomographyMedicineDiseasePet imagingNeuroimagingPathologyNuclear medicinePsychiatryDementia and Cognitive Impairment ResearchNeurological and metabolic disordersCerebrovascular and genetic disorders