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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND MOLECULAR IMAGING
Volume 39, Issue 11, Pages 1778-1783Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-012-2207-8
Keywords
Dopamine transporter; SPECT; Age; Gender; Voxel-based analysis
Funding
- Inserm (Centre d'Investigation Clinique, CIC, Hopital de la Conception, Marseille)
- AP-HM [PHRC 2007/09]
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Several studies have shown age- and gender-related differences in striatal dopamine transporter (DaT) binding. These studies were based on a striatal region on interest approach that may have underestimated these effects and could not evaluate extrastriatal regions. Our aim was to determine the effects at the voxel level of age and gender on whole-brain DaT distribution using [I-123]FP-CIT SPECT in healthy subjects. We performed a whole-brain [I-123]FP-CIT SPECT voxel-based analysis using SPM8 and a standardized normalization template (p < 0.05, corrected using the false discovery rate method) in 51 healthy subjects aged from 21 to 79 years. We found an age-related DaT binding decrease in the striatum, anterior cingulate/medial frontal cortices and insulo-opercular cortices. Also DaT binding ratios were higher in women than men in the striatum and opercular cortices. This study showed both striatal and extrastriatal age-related and gender-related differences in DaT binding in healthy subjects using a whole-brain voxel-based non-a priori approach. These differences highlight the need for careful age and gender matching in DaT analyses of neuropsychiatric disorders.
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