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Transverse 18F-DOPA PET images of a healthy control (left) and a patient with idiopathic PD (right). In PD, there is asymmetric loss of uptake of the tracer, and a more pronounced loss in the caudal putamen than in the rostral putamen and the caudate nucleus.
