New objective simple evaluation methods of amyloid PET/CT using whole-brain histogram and Top20%-Map.

Chio OkuyamaTatsuya HigashiKoichi IshizuNaoya OishiKuninori KusanoMiki ItoShinya KagawaTomoko OkinaNorio SuzukiHiroshi HasegawaYasuhiro NagahamaHiroyuki WatanabeMasahiro OnoHiroshi Yamauchi

Published in: Annals of nuclear medicine (2024)

Our new methods using the histogram of the brain parenchymal accumulation are simple and suitable for clinical practice of amyloid PET, and Top20%-Map on the individual's brain CT can be of great help for the visual assessment.

Keyphrases

pet ct
resting state
white matter
positron emission tomography
clinical practice
contrast enhanced
computed tomography
functional connectivity
cerebral ischemia
diffusion weighted
magnetic resonance
image quality
brain injury