A review of PET attenuation correction methods for PET-MR

G Krokos, J MacKewn, J Dunn, P Marsden - EJNMMI physics, 2023 - Springer
Despite being thirteen years since the installation of the first PET-MR system, the scanners
constitute a very small proportion of the total hybrid PET systems installed. This is in stark …

Magnetic resonance-based attenuation correction and scatter correction in neurological positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging—current status …

J Teuho, A Torrado-Carvajal, H Herzog… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In this review, we will summarize the past and current state-of-the-art developments in
attenuation and scatter correction approaches for hybrid positron emission tomography …

Neuroinflammation and its association with cognition, neuronal markers and peripheral inflammation after chemotherapy for breast cancer

G Schroyen, J Blommaert, D van Weehaeghe, C Sleurs… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Up to 70% of chemotherapy-treated patients experience problems with
memory and concentration, potentially caused by direct and indirect neurotoxicity, such as …

[HTML][HTML] Synaptic density in healthy human aging is not influenced by age or sex: a 11C-UCB-J PET study

L Michiels, A Delva, J van Aalst, J Ceccarini… - Neuroimage, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Rationale 11 C-UCB-J binds to synaptic vesicle glycoprotein 2A, a protein
ubiquitously expressed in presynaptic nerve terminals, and can therefore serve as in vivo …

Synaptic damage and its clinical correlates in people with early Huntington disease: a PET study

A Delva, L Michiels, M Koole, K Van Laere… - Neurology, 2022 - AAN Enterprises
Background and Objectives Synaptic damage has been proposed to play a major role in the
pathophysiology of Huntington disease (HD), but in vivo evidence in humans is lacking. We …

[11C]JNJ54173717, a novel P2X7 receptor radioligand as marker for neuroinflammation: human biodistribution, dosimetry, brain kinetic modelling and quantification …

D Van Weehaeghe, M Koole, ME Schmidt… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Purpose The P2X7 receptor (P2X7R) is an ATP-gated ion channel predominantly
expressed on activated microglia and is important in neurodegenerative diseases including …

Longitudinal imaging of regional brain volumes, SV2A, and glucose metabolism in Huntington's disease

A Delva, K Van Laere, W Vandenberghe - Movement Disorders, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Development of disease‐modifying treatments for Huntington's disease (HD)
could be aided by the use of imaging biomarkers of disease progression. Positron emission …

In vivo synaptic density relates to glucose metabolism at rest in healthy subjects, but is strongly modulated by regional differences

J van Aalst, J Ceccarini, S Sunaert… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Preclinical and postmortem studies have suggested that regional synaptic density and
glucose consumption (CMRGlc) are strongly related. However, the relation between …

Impact of meningeal uptake and partial volume correction techniques on [18F]MK-6240 binding in aMCI patients and healthy controls

N Mertens, L Michiels, G Vanderlinden… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
[18F] MK-6240 is a second-generation tau PET-tracer to quantify neurofibrillary tangles in-
vivo. However, individually variable levels of meningeal uptake induce spill-in-effects into …

Changes in synaptic density in the subacute phase after ischemic stroke: A 11C-UCB-J PET/MR study

L Michiels, N Mertens, L Thijs… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Functional alterations after ischemic stroke have been described with Magnetic Resonance
Imaging (MRI) and perfusion Positron Emission Tomography (PET), but no data on in vivo …