More on Scanning Technology - SPECT - 6

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Information on SPECT scanning is at this website.

http://eu.amershamhealth.com/products/datscan/cont.shtml

Check out the videos on this page which explain how a SPECT scan

works.

There are links at the left of the page under

Referring Physicians

Please click on all of them to read further.

Be sure to have a look at the SPECT images.

http://eu.amershamhealth.com/products/datscan/referring_physicians/ima

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Note is says: DaTSCAN is unable to discriminate between Parkinson's

Disease,

Multiple System Atrophy and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

Be sure to look at the page of medical references.

http://eu.amershamhealth.com/products/datscan/referring_physicians/ref

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Nuclear medicine physicians - Introduction

SPECT imaging with DaTSCANT has proved to be both sensitive and highly

specific in detecting dopaminergic dysfunction in Parkinsonian

Syndromes. It

can help establish the truth of the disorder when clinical features

are

incomplete or contradictory.

Now the truth is out. Amersham are proud to announce the first and

only

approved nuclear imaging product to help differentiate Essential

Tremor from

Parkinsonian Syndromes related to idiopathic Parkinson's Disease.

DaTSCAN is

unable to discriminate between Parkinson's Disease, Multiple System

Atrophy

and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy.

DaTSCAN is easy to use. With a convenient one day protocol, it

produces

clear pictures providing accurate visual differentiation of

Parkinsonian

Syndromes and Essential Tremor.