Application of a neuropsychological activation probe with spect: the ‘tower of london’ task in healthy volunteers

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 177-182

  Goethals, Ingeborg ^a   Audenaert, Kurt ^a   Jacobs, Filip ^a   Van de Wiele, Christophe ^a   Pyck, Hanneke ^a   Ham, Hamphrey ^a   Vandierendonck, André ^a   van Heeringen, Cees ^a   Dierckx, Rudi ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Healthy subjects; Planning; SPECT activation; Tower of London

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; BRAIN; CYSTEINE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 1542284688     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200402000-00015     Document Type: Article

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