Modeling of fluorine-18-6-fluoro-L-Dopa in humans

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 432-437

  Wahl, Lindi ^a   Nahmias, Claude ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

compartmental analysis; dopamine metabolism; fluorine 18 F Dopa; fluorine 18 OMFD; PET

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC LEVO AMINO ACID DECARBOXYLASE; FLUORINE 18;

ADULT; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; COMPARTMENT MODEL; DECARBOXYLATION; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; METHYLATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORPUS STRIATUM; DIHYDROXYPHENYLALANINE; DOPAMINE; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARKINSON DISEASE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0029864250     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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