First Mediterranean Thematic Workshop on Advanced Molecular Brain Imaging with Compact High Performance MRI-Compatible PET and SPECT Imagers – Potential for a Paradigm Shift

Session

Psychiatric/Neurobehavioral disorders

1 Sept 2012, 15:20

Giardini di Naxos (Taormina, Sicily)

12. Molecular imaging in psychiatry

P. Stenkrona

01/09/2012, 15:20

Abstract. The picomolar sensitivity of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is increasingly recognized in industrial drug development projects aiming for rapid confirmation of new treatment principles in humans. Three major approaches can be identified. Radio-labeling of a new drug to high specific radioactivity allows for a detailed mapping of drug distribution to critical organs in man after...

13. Investigating behavioral disorders by neuroimaging

P. Stenkrona

01/09/2012, 15:45