PET 6-[<sup>18</sup>F]fluoro-L-m-tyrosine studies of dopaminergic function in human and nonhuman primates
Although positron emission tomography (PET) and the aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase (AADC) tracer 6-[<sup>18</sup>F]fluoro-L-m-tyrosine (FMT) has been used to assess the integrity of the presynaptic dopamine system in the brain, relatively little has been published in terms of brain...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2008-03-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Human Neuroscience |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/neuro.09.009.2007/full |