SPECT images for healthy controls, AD, DLB and PD (IMAGE)

Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

SPECT images for healthy controls, AD, DLB and PD

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SPECT images, superimposed on a magnetic resonance atlas, of an axial slice (top row) and a sagittal slice (bottom row) of the human brain, with a quantitative artificial-color scale showing the differences in the average distribution of the radioactive compound [123I]FP-CIT in the striatum of healthy controls, Alzheimer's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and Parkinson's disease (from left to right).

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Francisco Oliveira (CCU)

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