Radiology Key

1. Dementia with grains: DG 2. Senile dementia of the neurofibrillary tangle type (SD-NFT) 3. Progressive supranuclear palsy: PSP 4. Corticobasal degeneration: CBS 5. Pick disease 6. Diffuse neurofibrillary tangle…

Fig. 11.1 An example of the result of statistical analysis of SPECT image. It is not easy to point out the hypoperfusion regions with visual inspection of SPECT image except…

Nucleus Name Spin Frequency (B 0 = 1.5 T) Inherent sensitivity Natural abundance (%) 1H Proton 1/2 63.87 1 99.99 7Li Lithium 3/2 24.81 0.272 92.58 13C Carbon 1/2 16.06…

Fig. 14.1 Age distribution of volunteers who revealed neurological abnormalities (e.g., pathological reflex, sensory or motor abnormalities) by physical examination. Of the 685 volunteers (dark + light green), 81 revealed…

Fig. 13.1 (a) MRI (T1) images of bvFTD. The axial (left) and coronal (right) images demonstrate frontotemporal atrophy. (b) The result of VSRAD analysis (normal healthy volunteers vs. bvFTD individual)….

Fig. 12.1 A comparison of z-scores between AD and DLB using VSRAD Among subcortical structures, atrophy of the substantia innominata (including the nucleus basalis of Meynert) [11] and dorsal midbrain…

Fig. 1.1 Prevalence of early-onset dementia in terms of 5-year age strata Oddly, the response rate was exactly the same in two surveys in Japan [1, 2]. It is also…

Fig. 3.1 Subfield segmentation from high-resolution T2-weighted image. Automatic volumetry is possible in hippocampal subfields and adjacent cortical subregions. CA cornu ammonis, DG dentate gyrus, SUB subiculum, ERC entorhinal cortex,…

Fig. 16.1 Relationship between method of PET scanning and image quality and their possible effects on diagnostic capability. NEC noise equivalent count, PVE partial volume effect 16.3.2 Injection Activity and…

Fig. 15.1 Example of differences between MR image qualities. (a) Good quality image, (b) blurring artifact around frontal gyrus, (c) poor SNR Moreover, several preprocessing steps such as geometrical distortion…