Impact of age and sex correction on the diagnostic performance of dopamine transporter SPECT.
Helen Schmitz-SteinkrügerCatharina LangeIvayla ApostolovaFranziska L MathiesLars FringsSusanne KlutmannSabine HellwigPhilipp T MeyerRalph BuchertPublished in: European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging (2020)
These findings do not support age and sex correction of the putaminal FP-CIT SBR in the diagnostic workup of parkinsonian syndromes. This most likely is explained by the fact that the proportion of between-subjects variance caused by age and sex is considerably below the symptom threshold of about 50% reduction in neurodegenerative PS.
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