Equivocal Dopamine Transporter Imaging: Integrating Visual Assessment, Quantification, and Clinical Follow-Up
So Young Kim · 2026
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Description
So Young Kim reviews the hard cases of dopamine transporter imaging in this two thousand twenty-six narrative review. These brain scans help tell whether tremor and stiffness come from Parkinson-type degeneration, but an important share of scans land in a gray zone.
Kim walks through what makes a scan equivocal: faint loss in one region, lopsided uptake, or numbers that clash with the picture. Causes range from early disease to medicines, artifacts, and the limits of comparison databases. The review argues that no single cutoff number works across scanners and tracers, so expert reading of the image stays primary, with careful numbers as support. Combining the scan with the patient's history and follow-up cuts diagnostic mistakes.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | So Young Kim |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |