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SUBMITTER: Hong JY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4905632 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hong Jin Yong JY Sunwoo Mun Kyung MK Oh Jungsu S JS Kim Jae Seung JS Sohn Young H YH Lee Phil Hyu PH
PloS one 20160613 6
Functional neuroimaging for the dopamine transporter (DAT) is used to distinguish drug-induced parkinsonism (DIP) from subclinical Parkinson's disease (PD). Although DIP patients who show a normal DAT image are expected to recover completely, some do not. We investigated whether these patients showed changes in striatal DAT activity using semi-quantitative analysis of 18F-FP-CIT PET data. DIP patients with visually normal DAT images were selected from medical records. The subjects were classifie ...[more]