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Brain images differentiate between different types of dementia

21 Apr 2021 Jigar Dubal 
SPECT images
123I-FP-CIT SPECT images overlaid on an MRI template from (left to right) healthy controls, and patients with Alzheimer’s disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson’s disease. The colour scale represents the radiotracer binding potential. (Courtesy: Francisco Oliveira (CCU))
Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is the second most common cause of degenerative dementia in elderly

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Jigar Dubal is a former PhD contributor to Physics World. Jigar studied optical imaging techniques to characterize tumour response during radiotherapy at the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, University of Surrey, UK. Find out more about our student contributor networks
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