PET and SPECT in common neuropsychiatric disease

Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 259-262

  Tatsch, Klaus ^a   Ell, Peter J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Movement disorders; Nuclear medicine; Positron emission tomography; Single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC LEVO AMINO ACID DECARBOXYLASE; BENZOFURAN DERIVATIVE; DIHYDROTETRABENAZINE; DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER; EPIDEPRIDE; FALLYPRIDE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; IODOBENZAMIDE; RACLOPRIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOBASAL DEGENERATION; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYNDROME; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME; TUMOR BIOPSY;

EID: 33745477716     PISSN: 14702118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.6-3-259     Document Type: Article

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