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ArticleJournal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine2019

Automatic Extraction of a Reference Region for the Noninvasive Quantification of Translocator Protein in Brain Using

Paolo Zanotti-Fregonara, William C Kreisl, Robert B Innis, Chul Hyoung Lyoo

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Article in Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Paolo Zanotti-FregonaraHouston Methodist Research Institute, and Weill Cornell Medicine, Houston, Texas.
William C KreislTaub Institute, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York.
Robert B InnisIntramural Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; and.
Chul Hyoung LyooDepartment of Neurology, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea lyoochel@yuhs.ac.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brain inflammation is associated with various types of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer disease (AD). Quantifying inflammation with PET is a challenging and invasive procedure, especially in frail patients, because it requires blood sampling from an arterial catheter. A widely used alternative to arterial sampling is a supervised clustering algorithm (SVCA), which identifies the voxels with minimal specific binding in the PET images, thus extracting a reference region for noninvasive kinetic modeling.

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PyrimidinesAlzheimer DiseaseAutomationBrainCase-Control StudiesCognitive DysfunctionHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedKineticsMagnetic Resonance ImagingModels, BiologicalPositron-Emission TomographyReceptors, GABA(methyl-(11)C)N-acetyl-N-(2-methoxybenzyl)-2-phenoxy-5-pyridinaminePyrimidinesReceptors, GABATSPO protein, human11C-PBR28AlzheimerbrainclusteringinflammationPET

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PMID30655330
PMCPMC6604696

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