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Establishing on-site reference values for 123I-FP-CIT SPECT (DaTSCAN®) using a cohort of individuals with non-degenerative conditions

  • Nicastro, Nicolas Department of Neurology, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland
  • Garibotto, Valentina Department of Nuclear Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland
  • Poncet, Antoine Department of Epidemiology, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland
  • Badoud, Simon Department of Neurology, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland - Physiology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Burkhard, Pierre R. Department of Neurology, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland
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    04.09.2015
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  • Molecular Imaging and Biology. - 2016, vol. 18, no. 2, p. 302–312
English To overcome the issue of reference values for DaTSCAN® requiring healthy controls, we propose an original approach using scans from individuals with non- degenerative conditions performed at one single center following the same acquisition protocol. Procedures: From a cohort of 970 consecutive patients, we identified 182 patients with a clinical diagnosis of non-degenerative parkinsonism or tremor and a visually normal DATSCAN®. Caudate nucleus (C), putamen (P), and striatum (S) uptake values, C/P ratios, and asymmetry indexes (AI) were calculated using semi-quantitative methods. Outcomes were assessed according to age and gender, and reference limits were established using the percentile approach. Results: A significant negative linear effect of age was found upon striatal nuclei uptake of 0.21–0.22 per decade (6.8 %/decade for striatum), whereas a potential gender influence proved unclear. Inferior reference limits were established at the 5th percentile. C/P ratios and AIs were not influenced by age or gender, and superior reference limits were set at the 95th percentile. Conclusions: We here propose a convenient approach to calculate site-specific reference limits for DaTSCAN® outcomes not requiring scanning healthy controls. The method appears to yield robust values that range within nearly identical limits as those obtained in healthy subjects.
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Faculté des sciences et de médecine
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Département de Médecine
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  • English
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Biological sciences
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