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Br Dent J
August 2022
Speciality Dentist, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Forth Valley Royal Hospital, Larbert, UK.
The acute management of a facial swelling is a core competency for the dental practitioner. Onward referral to secondary care for acutely unwell patients requires timely decisions, with the referrer's initial assessment often critical in later management. Oral and maxillofacial triage is essential to ensure appropriate care is provided in the appropriate environment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Our aim is to validate the process steps implemented by the French CATI platform to assess amyloid status, obtained from 18F-Florbetapir PET scans, in a cohort of 318 cognitively normal subjects participating in the INSIGHT-preAD study. Our objective was to develop a method with partial volume effect correction (PVEC) on untransformed PET images, using an automated pipeline ("RACHEL") adapted to large series of patients and including quality checks of results.
Methods: We compared RACHEL using different options (with and without PVEC, different sets of regions of interest), to two other methods validated in the literature, referred as the "AVID" and "CAEN" methods.
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