Imaging of dopamine transporters with iodine-123-beta-CIT and SPECT in Parkinson's disease. - Concepedia

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Imaging of dopamine transporters with iodine-123-beta-CIT and SPECT in Parkinson's disease.

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1997

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S. Asenbaum, Thomas Brücke, Walter Pirker, I. Podreka, P. Angelberger, S. Wenger, Christian Wöber, L. Deecke

Abstract

The present study demonstrates that it is possible to visualize and quantify the degeneration of dopaminergic nigrostriatal neurons in PD using [123I]beta-CIT and SPECT with good correlation to clinical parameters.