Obligatory medical device diagnostics.
- Computed tomography of the skull (cranial CT, cranial CT or cCT).
- Magnetic resonance imaging of the skull (cranial MRI, cranial MRI or cMRI).
- Positron emission tomography (PET; procedure of nuclear medicine, which allows the creation of cross-sectional images of living organisms by visualizing the distribution patterns of weak radioactive substances) – in case of evidence on hypometabolism in the corpus striatum (striatum for short; part of the basal ganglia, which belong to the cerebrum) (possibly detectable already in the early stages of the disease).
Optional medical device diagnostics – depending on the results of the history, physical examination and obligatory laboratory parameters – for differential diagnostic clarification and detection of Huntington’s disease or its sequelae.
- Brain perfusion scintigraphy – dementia diagnostics.
- HMPAO-SPECT examination – detection of inferior perfusion in the corpus striatum.
- Computed tomography of the skull (cranial CT, cranial CT or cCT) – if hemorrhagic or ischemic infarction is suspected.
- Magnetic resonance imaging of the skull (cranial MRI, cranial MRI or cMRI) – if hemorrhagic or ischemic infarction is suspected.
