PET Z-score

Divya Yadav1, Ashley Knight-Greenfield1, Joseph Moirano1

  • 1From the Department of Diagnostic Imaging (Divya Yadav), Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa Florida, USA; Department of Radiology, (Ashley Knight-Greenfield, Joseph Moirano, Samantha A. Keil, Brielle Intorcia, Edward J. Ebani, Joseph Osborne, Gloria Chiang, Jana Ivanidze), Department of Neurlogy (Anna Nordvig, Miran W. Salgado, Moath Hamed, Michael Lin, Sonja Blum) and Division of Biostatistics, Department of Population Health Sciences, (Arindam RoyChoudhury), Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.

概括

来自粉样PET成像的定量Z-分数与视觉评估有很强的相关性,支持它们用于改善阿尔茨海默氏症的诊断和治疗监测. 这提高了诊断的信心,并减少了解释粉样蛋白PET扫描的变化.

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