REGIONAL CEREBRAL PERFUSION IMAGING IN THE ELDERLY

1 July 1984

journal article
case report
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Age and Ageing

Vol. 13 (4) , 214-217
https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/13.4.214

Abstract

Tomographic emission scintigraphy of the brain using a stationary gamma-camera and rotating slant hole collimator, following intravenous injection of ¹²³I-n-isopropyl p-iodoamphetamine, yields high quality images of regional cerebral blood flow. The technique has been used on 20 geriatric patients and is non-invasive, well-tolerated, and hitherto only associated with trivial adverse effects. It appears to be particularly useful in supporting a clinical diagnosis of multiinfarct disease but the demonstration of zones of underperfused but not necessarily infarcted cerebral tissue may well have wider research implications.

Keywords

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING
ELDERLY
BRAIN
COLLIMATOR DEVICES
RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING
GAMMA CAMERAS
CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW
INTRAVENOUS INJECTIONS

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