Functional neuroimaging for dementia: Commissioning and evaluating a service

Abstract

Despite NICE and European guidelines recommending functional neuroimaging for suspected dementia when diagnosis is in doubt, many parts of the country do not have access to it. This article describes how the authors developed a business case leading to a one-year pilot and eventually recurrent funding for 40 FDG-PET/CT and five DaTscans per year. It presents the evaluation of the first two years of operation.