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                               FIGURE 2.
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                               Alzheimer’s disease:  F-FDG brain PET/CT study of a 50-year-old woman with
                               progressive amnesia and dysgraphia for 18 months. The left and right lateral (A) and left and
                               right medial (B) 3-dimensional stereotactic surface projection images of FDG
                               hypometabolism demonstrate glucose hypometabolism involving the posterior cingulate
                               gyrus and bilateral parietal cortices extending to the temporal region (compared with a
                               normal brain database, Mim software 6.2. Light blue, −1 SD; dark blue, −2 SDs; purple, −3
                               SDs), features consistent with early AD.







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