[Clinical usefulness of three-dimensional brain imaging with N-isopropyl-p-[123I]iodoamphetamine (IMP)].
Three-dimensional reconstruction from N-isopropyl-p-[123I]iodoamphetamine (IMP) tomography has been applied clinically to the detection of perfusion defects in 22 cases (15 cerebrovascular diseases and 7 normal controls confirmed by CT and MRI), with data being analyzed in terms of receiver operating characteristic curves (ROC). The results showed that three-dimensional (3-D) image could make better diagnostic capability especially in inexperienced examiner and that it was useful decreasing of difference of diagnostic capability. 3-D image could be taken within 1 minute and 15 seconds. We concluded that the three-dimensional brain imaging with IMP using this system was clinically useful because examiner could easily diagnose perfusion defects.
Kasai
T
T
Sugimura
K
K
Okizuka
H
H
Ishida
J
J
Fujita
Y
Y
Furukawa
T
T
Sugihara
M
M
Kodama
K
K
Yasui
K
K
Tanaka
H
H
D000368:Aged; D000662:Amphetamines; D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D020367:Iofetamine; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed / Q000379:methods*
D000662:Amphetamines; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D020367:Iofetamine