Sven Haller, Valentina Garibotto, Enikö Kövari, Constantin Bouras, Aikaterini Xekardaki, Cristelle Rodriguez, Maciej Jakub Lazarczyk, Panteleimon Giannakopoulos, Karl-Olof Lovblad
The structural and functional neuroimaging of dementia have substantially evolved over the last few years. The most common forms of dementia, Alzheimer disease (AD), Lewy body dementia (LBD) and fronto-temporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), have distinct patterns of cortical atrophy and hypometabolism that evolve over time, as reviewed in the first part of this article. The second part discusses unspecific white matter alterations on T2-weighted and fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) images as well as cerebral microbleeds, which often occur during normal aging and may affect cognition...
December 2013: European Radiology