Differential diagnosis in Alzheimer’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies via VMAT2 and amyloid imaging.

The noninvasive evaluation of nigrostriatal dopaminergic integrity by PET can provide useful information for the differential diagnosis between dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

• Publication date: 2012
• Journal: Neuro-degenerative diseases
• Publication date: Villemagne VL, Okamura N, Pejoska S, Drago J, Mulligan RS, Chételat G, O'Keefe G, Jones G, Kung HF, Pontecorvo M, Masters CL, Skovronsky DM, Rowe CC
• ISSN: 1660-2862