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. 2007 Oct;34(10):1658-69.
doi: 10.1007/s00259-007-0454-x. Epub 2007 May 23.

Partial volume effect-corrected FDG PET and grey matter volume loss in patients with mild Alzheimer's disease

Miharu Samuraki  1 , Ichiro Matsunari, Wei-Ping Chen, Kazuyoshi Yajima, Daisuke Yanase, Akihiko Fujikawa, Nozomi Takeda, Shintaro Nishimura, Hiroshi Matsuda, Masahito Yamada
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Partial volume effect-corrected FDG PET and grey matter volume loss in patients with mild Alzheimer's disease

Miharu Samuraki et al. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2007 Oct.

Abstract

Purpose: Although( 18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET is an established imaging technique to assess brain glucose utilisation, accurate measurement of tracer concentration is confounded by the presence of partial volume effect (PVE) due to the limited spatial resolution of PET, which is particularly true in atrophic brains such as those encountered in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Our aim was to investigate the effects of PVE correction on FDG PET in conjunction with voxel-based morphometry (VBM) in patients with mild AD.

Methods: Thirty-nine AD patients and 73 controls underwent FDG PET and MRI. The PVE-corrected grey matter PET images were obtained using an MRI-based three-compartment method. Additionally, the results of PET were compared with grey matter loss detected by VBM.

Results: Before PVE correction, reduced FDG uptake was observed in posterior cingulate gyri (PCG) and parieto-temporal lobes (PTL) in AD patients, which persisted after PVE correction. Notably, PVE correction revealed relatively preserved FDG uptake in hippocampal areas, despite the grey matter loss in medial temporal lobe (MTL) revealed by VBM.

Conclusion: FDG uptake in PCG and PTL is reduced in AD regardless of whether or not PVE correction is applied, supporting the notion that the reduced FDG uptake in these areas is not the result of atrophy. Furthermore, FDG uptake by grey matter tissue in the MTL, including hippocampal areas, is relatively preserved, suggesting that compensatory mechanisms may play a role in patients with mild AD.

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