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Phys Med Biol ; 56(18): N183-93, 2011 Sep 21.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21865622

RESUMO

Attenuation of photon flux on trajectories between the source and pinhole apertures affects the quantitative accuracy of reconstructed single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) images. We propose a Chang-based non-uniform attenuation correction (NUA-CT) for small-animal SPECT/CT with focusing pinhole collimation, and compare the quantitative accuracy with uniform Chang correction based on (i) body outlines extracted from x-ray CT (UA-CT) and (ii) on hand drawn body contours on the images obtained with three integrated optical cameras (UA-BC). Measurements in phantoms and rats containing known activities of isotopes were conducted for evaluation. In (125)I, (201)Tl, (99m)Tc and (111)In phantom experiments, average relative errors comparing to the gold standards measured in a dose calibrator were reduced to 5.5%, 6.8%, 4.9% and 2.8%, respectively, with NUA-CT. In animal studies, these errors were 2.1%, 3.3%, 2.0% and 2.0%, respectively. Differences in accuracy on average between results of NUA-CT, UA-CT and UA-BC were less than 2.3% in phantom studies and 3.1% in animal studies except for (125)I (3.6% and 5.1%, respectively). All methods tested provide reasonable attenuation correction and result in high quantitative accuracy. NUA-CT shows superior accuracy except for (125)I, where other factors may have more impact on the quantitative accuracy than the selected attenuation correction.


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Modelos Animais , Imagens de Fantasmas , Tomografia Computadorizada de Emissão de Fóton Único/métodos , Animais , Radioisótopos do Iodo , Fótons , Ratos , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes , Espalhamento de Radiação , Sensibilidade e Especificidade , Tecnécio , Radioisótopos de Tálio , Tomografia Computadorizada de Emissão de Fóton Único/instrumentação , Tomografia Computadorizada por Raios X/métodos
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Mol Psychiatry ; 12(11): 984-7, 2007 Nov.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17957236

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A pivotal question in neuropharmacology is how the function of neurotransmitter systems relates to psychiatric diseases. In experimental neuropharmacology, we have dreamt about a looking glass that would allow us to see neurotransmitter systems in action, and about animals that would faithfully serve us as models for human psychiatric disease. Analysis of animal models has been limited by the availability of methods to study in vivo neurotransmitter dynamics. Now, a single photon emission computed tomography system called U-SPECT can localize dopamine transporters in sub-compartments of the mouse brain during a range of points in time. Applied to the midbrain dopamine system of different models of disease, this will aid the understanding of dynamic processes of this neurotransmitter that underlie brain functions and human brain pathology.


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Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagem , Encéfalo/metabolismo , Proteínas da Membrana Plasmática de Transporte de Dopamina/metabolismo , Tomografia Computadorizada de Emissão de Fóton Único , Animais , Autorradiografia/métodos , Encéfalo/efeitos dos fármacos , Cocaína/análogos & derivados , Cocaína/farmacocinética , Radioisótopos do Iodo/farmacocinética , Masculino , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Fatores de Tempo , Tropanos/farmacocinética
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