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Quantitative SPECT/CT May Be a Complementary Diagnostic Tool for ATTR-CM

There was a significant association between septal and lateral wall thickness and the respective regional standardized uptake values of 99mTc-3,3-diphosphono-1,2 propanodicarboxylic acid. This ...
BMJ

Incident impulse control disorder symptoms and dopamine transporter imaging in Parkinson disease

4 Parkinson's Disease Research, Education and Clinical Centers (PADRECC), Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 5 Mental Illness Research, Education and ...
Cochrane

Dopamine transporter imaging for the diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies

Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is one of the more common causes of dementia in old age. At present, it is diagnosed on the basis of the presence of characteristic symptoms, of which the most ...
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Deep Learning‑based All-in-one Correction Pipeline of Dopamine Transporter SPECT Using Realistic Simulations of a Digital Brain Phantom Population

Introduction: Deep learning (DL) is effective in image corrections on Dopamine transporter (DAT) SPECT for the early detection of Parkinson's disease (PD). However, existing methods usually tackle ...
devdiscourse

AI tool achieves near-perfect accuracy in Parkinson’s diagnosis

Researchers have developed an AI-powered MRI system that can diagnose Parkinson's disease and its atypical variants with an astonishing 98% accuracy. This cutting-edge system, known as Automated ...
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Unrealistic Data Augmentation Improves the Robustness of Deep Learning–Based Classification of Dopamine Transporter SPECT Against Variability Between Sites and Between Cameras

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) outperform conventional methods in many medical imaging tasks (1). However, CNN-based methods, too, are sensitive to the variability of image characteristics ...
IEEE

Deep-Learning-Based Cross-Modality Striatum Segmentation for Dopamine Transporter SPECT in Parkinson’s Disease

Abstract: Striatum segmentation on dopamine transporter (DaT) SPECT is necessary to quantify striatal uptake for Parkinson’s disease (PD), but is challenging due to the inferior resolution. This work ...
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False-Positive Dopamine Transporter Imaging Due to Therapeutic Dextroamphetamine/Amphetamine

Dopamine transporter (DAT) single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is an accurate adjunct to clinical evaluation for Parkinson’s disease (PD) in cases where the diagnosis is difficult.
Europe PMC

No impact of attenuation and scatter correction on the interpretation of dopamine transporter SPECT in patients with clinically uncertain parkinsonian syndrome.

The benefit from attenuation and scatter correction (ASC) of dopamine transporter (DAT)-SPECT for the detection of nigrostriatal degeneration in clinical routine is still a matter of debate. The ...
BioSpace

SimonMed Announces offering of DaTscan

SimonMed is proud to announce we will offer GE HealthCare’s radiopharmaceutical diagnostic tracer, DaTscan™, with DaTQUANT™ nationally starting immediately in all of our markets. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., ...