A computed tomography study of Alzheimer's disease by regional volumetric and parenchymal density measurements
- 1 June 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Zeitschrift für Neurologie
- Vol. 233 (3) , 164-167
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00314425
Abstract
Seventeen patients with clinically diagnosed Alzheimer's disease and 13 healthy age-matched controls were studied by means of computed tomography (CT). To assess cerebral atrophy, regional volumetric measurements and parenchymal density measurements were performed. The results indicate that: (1) Alzheimer patients show diffuse cerebral atrophy in the early stage; (2) the evaluation of lobar atrophy by means of CT is useful for the clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease; (3) the evaluation of parenchymal density by means of CT is not as sensitive as the evaluation of lobar atrophy.Keywords
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