• Title/Summary/Keyword: $^{99m}$Tc-HMPAO

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Differences of Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT Imaging in the Early Stage of Subcortical Vascular Dementia Compared with Alzheimer's Disease (초기 단계의 피질하 혈관성 치매와 알쯔하이머병에서 Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT 영상 소견 차이)

  • Park, Kyung-Won;Kang, Do-Young;Park, Min-Jeong;Cheon, Sang-Myung;Cha, Jae-Kwan;Kim, Sang-Ho;Kim, Jae-Woo
    • Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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    • v.41 no.6
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    • pp.530-537
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    • 2007

  • Purpose: The aim of this study is to assess the specific patterns of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in patients with the early stage of subcortical vascular dementia (SVaD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) using Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT, and to compare the differences between the two conditions. Materials and Methods: Sixteen SVaD, 46 AD and 12 control subjects participated in this study. We included the patients with SVaD and AD according to NINCDS-ADRDA and NINDS-AIREN criteria. They were all matched for age, education and clinical dementia rating scores. Three groups were evaluated by Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT using statistical parametric mapping (SPM) for measuring rCBF. The SPECT data of patients with SVaD and AD were compared with those of normal control subjects and then compared with each other. Results: SPM analysis of the SPECT image showed significant perfusion deficits on the right temporal region and thalamus, left insula and superior temporal gyrus, both cingulate gyri and frontal subgyri in patients with SVaD and on the left supramarginal gyrus, superior temporal gyrus, postcentral gyrus and inferior parietal lobule, right fugiform gyrus and both cingulate gyri in AD compared with control subjects (uncorrected p<0.01). SVaD patients revealed significant hypoperfusion in the right parahippocampal gyrus with cingulated gyrus, left insula and both frontal subgyral regions compared with AD (uncorrected p<0.01). Conclusion: Our study shows characteristic and different pattern of perfusion deficits in patients with SVaD and AD, and these results may be helpful to discriminate the two conditions in the early stage of illness.

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The Role of Tc-99m HMPAO Brain Perfusion SPECT in the Psychiatric Disability Evaluation of Patients with Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury (만성 외상성 뇌 손상 환자의 정신의학적 후유 장애 평가에서 Tc-99m HMPAO 뇌혈류 SPECT의 역할)

  • So, Young;Lee, Kang-Wook;Lee, Sun-Woo;Ghi, Ick-Sung;Song, Chang-June
    • The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.232-243
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    • 2002

  • Purpose: We studied whether brain perfusion SPECT is useful in the psychiatric disability evaluation of patients with chronic traumatic brain injury (TBI). Materials and Methods: Sixty-nine patients (M:F=58:11, age $39{\pm}14$ years) who underwent Tc-99m HMPAO brain SPECT, brain MRI and neuropsychological (NP) tests during hospitalization in psychiatric wards for the psychiatric disability evaluation were included; the severity of injury was mild in 31, moderate in 17 and severe in 21. SPECT, MRI, NP tests were peformed $6{\sim}61$ months (mean 23 months) post-injury. Diagnostic accuracy of SPECT and MRI to show hypoperfusion or abnormal signal intensity in patients with cognitive impairment represented by NP test results were compared. Results: Forty-two patients were considered to have cognitive impairment on NP tests and 27 not. Brain SPECT showed 71% sensitivity and 85% specificity, while brain MRI showed 62% sensitivity and 93% specificity (p>0.05, McNemar test). SPECT found more cortical lesions and MRI was superior in detecting white matter lesions. Sensitivity and specificity of 31 mild TBI patients were 45%, 90% for SPECT and 27%, 100% for MRI (p>0.05, McNemar test). Among 41 patients with normal brain MRI, SPECT showed 63% sensitivity (50% for mild TBI) and 88% specificity (85% for malingerers). Conclusion: Brain SPECT has a supplementary role to neuropsychological tests in the psychiatric disability evaluation of chronic TBI patients by detecting more cortical lesions than MRI.

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