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A brain-imaging study can help your doctor zero in on more likely causes for your symptoms and rule out other causes. Brain-imaging procedures your doctor may recommend to help diagnose vascular dementia include: Computerized tomography (CT) scan. For a CT scan, you'll lie on a narrow table that slides into a small chamber.
Other related tests that may be performed include: 1  Gram stain âa relatively quick test used to detect and identify the general type of bacteria. 2  Susceptibility testing âdetermines the drug (antimicrobial) that may be most effective in treating the infection. Viruses cannot be detected using blood culture bottles designed to grow bacteria. 2  If the health practitioner suspects that a viral infection may be the cause of the person's symptoms, then other laboratory tests would need to be performed.