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DaTSCAN TM (Ioflupane I 123 Injection) SPECT Imaging Demonstrates Impact on the Diagnosis of Patients with Clinically Uncertain Dementia with Lewy Bodies

GE Healthcare today presented the results of a randomized study analyzing the effect of DaTSCAN TM (Ioflupane I 123 Injection) SPECT imaging in a group of adult patients with a diagnosis of possible ...
Monthly Prescribing Reference

DaTSCAN Aids Diagnosis of Dementia with Lewy Bodies

DaTscan (ioflupane I 123 injection; GE Healthcare) was found to improve a physician’s ability to definitively diagnose patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and increase their confidence in ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Effective and Efficient Diagnosis of Parkinsonism: The Role of Dopamine Transporter SPECT Imaging With Ioflupane I-123 Injection (DaTscanâ„¢)

Parkinson’s disease (PD), the second-most common neurodegenerative disease, is characterized by motor and nonmotor symptoms. PD is often misdiagnosed; inappropriate treatment due to misdiagnosis has ...
ALZFORUM

Through the Heart? Cardiology Tracer to Nail DLB Diagnosis

For all the brain-imaging research scientists in North America and Europe have been doing on dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) over the past decade, could it be said they were a little slow to catch on ...
Physics World

Brain images differentiate between different types of dementia

123 I-FP-CIT SPECT images overlaid on an MRI template from (left to right) healthy controls, and patients with Alzheimer’s disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson’s disease. The colour scale ...