History

• A 62-year old male.
• Patient has difficulties to cope with the new situation after changing his job and is worried about suffering from Alzheimer's Disease.
• Clinical symptoms document a mild cognitive disorder.
• Patient is referred for PET scan to exclude the diagnosis of an early state of Alzheimer's disease by Memory Clinic, Königsfelden, Switzerland.

Visual Inspection

• The FDG PET images do not reveal abnormalities.

FDG images. Click on the image for viewing more transaxial slices.

PALZ Findings

• The analysis reveals no pathology of the uptake pattern.
• Criterion within AD regions is normal (t-Sum=265.07).

Cluster images of significant hypometabolism. Click on the image for viewing more transaxial images.

Diagnosis

• The negative finding together with the young age of the patient allow to exclude Alzheimer's Dementia with high probability.