Could automated template based quantification of benzodiazepine receptors in brain single photon emission tomography with i nnc 13-8241 be used to demonstrate neuronal damage in traumatic brain injury?

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1065-1072

  Kauppinen, T ^a   Ahonen, A ^b   Tuomivaara, V ^b   Hiltunen, J ^c   BergstrOm K ^c   Kuikka, J ^c   Torniainen, P ^d   Hillbom, M ^d  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c MAP Medical Technologies Oy   (United States)

^d KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Automated quantification; Benzodiazepine receptors; Brain quantification; Image registration; Single photon emission tomography

Indexed keywords

3 (5 CYCLOPROPYL 1,2,4 OXADIAZOL 3 YL) 7 IODO 5,6 DIHYDRO 5 METHYL 6 OXO 4H IMIDAZO[1,5 A][1,4]BENZODIAZEPINE; BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR; BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; IODINE 123; NNC 13 8241; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; NNC 13-8241; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; ISOTOPE LABELING; MALE; NERVE CELL LESION; NEURORADIOLOGY; NEUROTRAUMATOLOGY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SCINTISCANNING; STANDARD; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BENZODIAZEPINES; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0036854504     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200211000-00005     Document Type: Article

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