The application of nuclear medicine imaging in neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry
Granov, A.M.; Tiutin, L.A.; Stanzhevskiĭ, A.A.
Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Meditsinskikh Nauk 9: 13-18
2012
ISSN/ISBN: 0869-6047 PMID: 23210167 Document Number: 663259
Analysis of use of nuclear medicine imaging (positron emission tomography and single photon emission computed tomography) in diagnosis, differential diagnosis and evaluation of treatment efficacy of central nervous system diseases is presented in this review. The possibility of radionuclide imaging techniques in different variants of dementia, Parkinson's disease, brain tumors is demonstrated on the basis of personal authors experience and recent literature data. Results of PET application in evaluating of the effecacy of stereotactic interventions in patients with anxiety obsessive disorders are also described in the review.