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Sympathetic 123 I-metaiodobenzylguanidine index for Lewy body disease: probability-based diagnosis and identifying patients exempt from late imaging.

Kenichi NakajimaTakeshi MatsumuraJunji KomatsuHiroshi WakabayashiKenjiro OnoSeigo Kinuya
Published in: Annals of nuclear medicine (2024)
I-MIBG-derived SMILe indexes provide likelihood of LBD, and those with a 50% threshold demonstrated optimal diagnostic accuracy for LBD. The index values of either < 0.3 or > 0.7 accurately selected patients who do not need late imaging.
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