While brown adipose tissue (BAT) is activated by the beta-3-adrenergic receptor (ADRB3) in
rodents, in human brown adipocytes, the ADRB2 is dominantly present and responsible for …

Purpose The purpose of the present study is to apply kinetic analysis to investigate exercise-
related changes in the metabolism of the skeletal muscle of the rat hindlimb by^ 11 C 11 C …

We present a method for comparing the uptake of the brain's two key energy substrates:
glucose and ketones (acetoacetate [AcAc] in this case) in the rat. The developed method is a …

Objective The objective of this study was to determine if clinical dynamic PET/CT imaging
with 11 CL-methyl-methionine (11 C-MET) in healthy older women can provide an estimate …

We present in this study a semi-automatic procedure to segment artery PET images in
elderly subjects with atherosclerosis. The inflammation in the artery is a precursor of …

This work describes a new iterative method for extracting time–activity curves (TAC) from
dynamic imaging studies using a priori information from generic models obtained from TAC …

Par Gabriel Richard Sciences des radiations et imagerie biomédicale Thèse présentée à la
Faculté de médecine et des sciences de la santé en vue de l'obtention du grade de docteur …

Arterial inflammation is an indicator of atheromatous plaque vulnerability to detach and to
obstruct blood vessels in the brain thus causing vascular complications. To date, it is difficult …

Abstract This work presents Monte Carlo (MC) study of a novel non-invasive positron
detector, hereinafter called NID, designed to measure the arterial input function (AIF) …

Synaptic pathology is associated with many neurological and psychiatric disorders. For
example, in patients with epilepsy, reduced synaptic density has been reported in the …