title: Neuroimaging in dementia.
abstract: Positron emission tomography, single photon emission computed tomography, and MR imaging are brain imaging techniques that have been applied widely to the study of patients with dementia. This article reviews current data on the clinical use of these techniques in the differential diagnosis of dementia and the prediction of dementia in those at risk.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, University of California Davis Alzheimer's Disease Center, University of California Davis, School of Medicine, Davis, California 95817, USA. wjjagust@ucdavis.edu
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Jagust
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis