Long Coronavirus Disease and the Brain
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a variety of health challenges, with “long COVID” emerging as a widespread and debilitating post-acute syndrome among a considerable number of…
Brain Tumor Assessment
While MR imaging is the main imaging modality to assess brain tumors, PET imaging has a specific role. Among the many tracers that have been proposed and are still being…
A Brief History and the Use of PET in the Diagnosis and Management of Schizophrenia
This article explores the role of PET in the diagnosis and treatment of schizophrenia. PET imaging can reveal neurobiologic aspects such as cerebral blood flow, glucose metabolism, receptor function, and…
Movement Disorders and Its Variants
Since the 2000s, Nuclear Medicine has primarily used SPECT with DaTSCAN and PET with [18F]-FDG to explore movement disorders. Recent advances in PET radiotracers, such as LBT 999 for dopamine…
Metabolic Brain PET Connectivity
This review examines the role of metabolic connectivity based on fluorodeoxyglucose-PET in understanding brain network organization across neurologic disorders, with a focus on neurodegenerative diseases. The article explores key methodologies…
