title: Cortical circumferential profile of SPECT cerebral perfusion in Alzheimer's disease.
abstract: We developed a semiautomatic method termed "cortical circumferential profiling" for objective analysis of cerebral cortex function in emission tomographic neuroimaging studies. This method treats cortex as a continuous ring near the outer brain edge. A computer algorithm samples the cortex at 60 contiguous, equiangular locations, using 1-cm2 samples. These values are plotted as a function of cortical angle to produce the cortical circumferential profile. This method was used in a study of regional cerebral perfusion in 15 patients with Alzheimer's disease and 8 elderly control subjects using N-isopropyl[I-123]-iodoamphetamine. Cortical circumferential profiling decreases variability, examines the entire cortex within slices at preselected levels above the orbital-meatal line, and facilitates intrasubject and intersubject comparisons.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD.
authors.forename: G J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Harris
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Links
authors.forename: G D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Pearlson
authors.forename: E E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Camargo
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012039:Regional Blood Flow / Q000502:physiology; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon