Research Article

Fully Automated Quantification of the Striatal Uptake Ratio of [99mTc]-TRODAT with SPECT Imaging: Evaluation of the Diagnostic Performance in Parkinson’s Disease and the Temporal Regression of Striatal Tracer Uptake

Table 1

Demographical summary of the subjects involved in this study. In the Parkinson’s disease (PD) group, the subgroups were divided based on clinical duration, which was defined as the number of years between the onset of PD-related symptoms and the TRODAT scan for an individual patient.

Disease
duration, years
SexAge at scan, yearsAge of symptom onset, yearsDisease duration at scan, years
MFMeanSDMaxMinMeanSDMaxMinMeanSDMaxMin

PD groupall36522214361.611.3872855.911.780275.85.3330
 Grou2118704859.811.4782858.611.477271.20.720
 Grou35100633761.311.9833357.411.980303.80.853
 Grou61087503762.110.9873754.611.180287.51.4106
 Grou1160392165.010.0854249.510.3702715.54.43311
nPD group61283363.016.38621
 Healthy control28181052.315.78221
 Essential tremor33102372.110.08649