Brain positron emission tomography with 2-18F-2-deoxi-D-glucose of patients with dystonia and essential tremor detects differences between these disorders.

We studied patients with dystonia (D) and essential tremor (ET) using positron emission tomography (PET) equipped with Cortex ID software. This allowed PET brain visualisation to be compared to scans of a control group by means of the z-score. The study revealed hypo-metabolism in both D and ET grou...

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Published in:Neuroradiology Journal Vol. 31; no. 1; pp. 60 - 69
Main Authors: Belenky, Vadim, Stanzhevsky, Andrei, Klicenko, Olga, Skoromets, Alexandr
Format: diagnostic images research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. Feb2018
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