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Bottom: advanced Parkinson’s disease. Net hypofixation of the left and right putamen. Top: control subject, normal fixation of the striata (putamen and caudate nuclei). PET scan with 123I-DaTScan. The tracer 123I-DaTScan binds specifically in the striata. The fixation level reflects the number of functional neurons of the presynaptic dopaminergic way which is involved in Parkinson’s disease.