Brain imaging in dementia
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Brain imaging in dementia.
The introduction of MRI and positron emission tomography (PET) brain imaging has contributed significantly to the understanding of different dementia syndromes. Over the past 20 years these imaging techniques have been increasingly used for clinical characterisation and differential diagnosis, and to provide insight into the effects on functional capacity of the brain, patterns of spatial distr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0032-5473,1469-0756
DOI: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2015-133759