Cerebral blood flow and oxygen metabolism in vascular dementia evaluated by positron emission tomography: importance of frontal lobe hypoperfusion and hypometabolism

Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2002 Nov:977:135-40. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb04808.x.

Authors

Makoto Tanaka¹, Koichi Okamoto, Shunsaku Hirai

Affiliation

¹ Department of Neurology, Gunma University School of Medicine, 3-39-33 Showa-machi, Maebashi, Gunma 371-8511, Japan. [email protected]

PMID: 12480743
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb04808.x

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Aged
Brain / diagnostic imaging*
Brain / pathology
Cerebral Infarction / complications
Cerebral Infarction / diagnostic imaging
Cerebral Infarction / physiopathology
Dementia, Vascular / diagnostic imaging
Dementia, Vascular / metabolism
Dementia, Vascular / physiopathology*
Female
Frontal Lobe / blood supply
Frontal Lobe / diagnostic imaging
Frontal Lobe / metabolism
Frontal Lobe / physiopathology*
Functional Laterality
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Tomography, Emission-Computed* / methods