Fractal analysis of striatal dopamine re-uptake sites

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1085-1090

  Kuikka, Jyrki T ^a   Tiihonen, Jari ^b   Karhu, Jari ^a   Bergström, Kim A ^a   Räsänen, Pirkko ^b  

^a KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Brain; Dopamine; Fractal analysis; Heterogeneity; Lateralization

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; VARIANCE;

ADULT; CARRIER PROTEINS; COCAINE; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; FEMALE; FRACTALS; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

AMINES; BRAIN; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PARTICLE BEAMS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

BLOOD FLOW; DOPAMINE; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HETEROGENEITY; LATERALIZATION; RESOLUTION TECHNIQUES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL VARIATIONS;

FRACTAL DIMENSION;

EID: 0030866754     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002590050125     Document Type: Article

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