RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Research Applications of Selected <sup>123</sup>I-Labeled Neuroreceptor SPECT Imaging Ligands
JF Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
JO J. Nucl. Med. Technol.
FD Society of Nuclear Medicine
SP 209
OP 214
VO 32
IS 4
A1 Stacey A. Ross
A1 John P. Seibyl
YR 2004
UL http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/32/4/209.abstract
AB Neuroreceptor imaging is a promising area of brain imaging used to investigate various neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders. In the research setting, radiopharmaceuticals targeted to specific areas of the brain are used along with SPECT to assess and analyze functional mechanisms within brain structures. Utilization of the data that are collected from these studies may aid in the development of drug therapies that can be used to relieve symptoms or delay progression of certain disease states. After reading this article, the nuclear medicine technologist should be able to identify and describe the role of structures in the brain, identify various radiopharmaceuticals used and the disease states they demonstrate, and become familiar with the drugs used in treatment of these disorders.