Chapter One - Advances in PET Methodology

Publication date: 2018Source: International Review of Neurobiology, Volume 141Author(s): Vesna SossiAbstractRecent advances in disease understanding, instrumentation technology, and computationally demanding image analysis approaches are opening new frontiers in the investigation of movement disorders and brain disease in general. A key aspect is the recognition of the need to determine molecular correlates to early functional and metabolic connectivity alterations, which are increasingly recognized as useful signatures of specific clinical disease phenotypes. Such multi-modal approaches are highly likely to provide new information on pathogenic mechanisms and to help the identification of novel therapeutic targets. This chapter describes recent methodological developments in PET starting with a very brief overview of radiotracers relevant to movement disorders while emphasizing the development of instrumentation, algorithms and imaging analysis methods relevant to multi-modal investigation of movement disorders.
Source: International Review of Neurobiology - Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research