A Textbook Of: SPECT in Neurology and Psychiatry

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Peter P. Deyn
John Libbey Eurotext, 1997 - 564 pages
This comprehensive colour atlas provides a state-of-the-art view of Single Photon Emission Computerised Tomography (SPECT) in relation to its application in the fields of nuclear medicine and psychiatry. The broad range of topics covered by experts in the fields of nuclear medicine, neurology and psychiatry from all over the world, reflects the most recent evolution in functional neuroimaging with clinical neuropsychiatric sciences. The book is organised with respect to clinical indication, which implies that whenever possible methodological problems related to clinical indication are categorised under the relevant topic. It is designed to stimulate discussion of some issues of paramount importance for the present and future development of this interdisciplinary modality for the study of patients with diseases of the central nervous system. This textbook is an important tool to all nuclear physicians, neurologists and psychiatrists and will serve as a guide towards the optimal application of SPECT in diagnosis, study of pathophysiology and therapeutic follow-up in neuropsychiatric illnesses.

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Contents

Dementia
3
SPECT Findings in Vascular Dementia and Alzheimers Disease
11
Comparison of Cholinergic Neuroreceptor SPECT with 1231
19
Can SPECT Distinguish Lewy Body Dementia from Alzheimers
27
IBZM SPECT Role in Preclinical Diagnosis
33
Assessment by 99mTcHMPAO SPECT in Patients with Normal
39
Benzodiazepine Receptor Distribution in Alzheimers Disease
45
Neuropsychology
57
Noninvasive Cerebral Blood Flow Measurement using
247
A Abnormalities of GABA Receptor Density and Blood Flow in
255
Combined Use of EEG
267
Paediatrics
275
Comparison of Cerebral Perfusion and Quantitative EEG
287
Cerebrovascular Disorders
299
Access by SPECT
307
Clinical Application of Cerebral Perfusion Reserve in Carotid
314

Activation Studies using SPECT
67
Assessment with
73
Methodological
81
Psychiatry
89
SPECT Imaging in Primary Mood Disorders
107
Reduced Frontal Cerebral Blood Flow in DrugFree Obsessive
117
Experimental Neuroactivation with SPECT in Schizophrenic Patients
125
99mTcHMPAO Brain SPECT and Psychopathology in DrugNaive
133
Cerebral Blood Flow Measured by 99mTcHMPAO SPECT in Mood
139
Movement Disorders
149
Clinical Significance of Dopamine Dâ‚‚Receptor Imaging with 1231
159
Brain SPECT 1231IBZM Distribution Analysis in
181
Quantification of Dopaminergic Nerve Cell Loss in Parkinsons
195
Epilepsy
207
rCBF Changes in Seizures Originating Outside Mesial Temporal Structures
225
HMPAO SPECT and VideoEEG Monitoring in Candidates
233
SPECT Imaging in Transient Ischaemic Attacks and Subarachnoid
323
Applications of rCBF Brain SPECT and NMR Imaging in
335
SPECT and Stroke with Particular Regard to Functional Recovery
347
Assessment of Cerebral Perfusion in Acute Intracerebral Haematoma
359
Prognostic Significance of Perfusion Defect in the Periinfarct Area
365
Tumours
377
SPECT Receptor Binding Studies in Brain Oncology with particular
393
Trauma Capitis
409
SPECT and MR in Focal and Diffuse Head Injury
423
SPECT and Central Nervous System Infectious Diseases
447
a SPECT Tracer for Local Brain Damage
467
Quantification in SPECT using NonInvasive Methods
495
Biological Basis of Cerebral Perfusion SPECT
513
Functional MR Imaging of the Brain
537
Author Index
561
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