Journal
JOURNAL OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW AND METABOLISM
Volume 32, Issue 7, Pages 1426-1454Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2012.20
Keywords
advances; brain; disorders; drug development; physiology; PET
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- MRC [MC_U120097115, G0700995] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [1116129, MC_U120097115, G0700995] Funding Source: researchfish
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The early developments of brain positron emission tomography (PET), including the methodological advances that have driven progress, are outlined. The considerable past achievements of brain PET have been summarized in collaboration with contributing experts in specific clinical applications including cerebrovascular disease, movement disorders, dementia, epilepsy, schizophrenia, addiction, depression and anxiety, brain tumors, drug development, and the normal healthy brain. Despite a history of improving methodology and considerable achievements, brain PET research activity is not growing and appears to have diminished. Assessments of the reasons for decline are presented and strategies proposed for reinvigorating brain PET research. Central to this is widening the access to advanced PET procedures through the introduction of lower cost cyclotron and radiochemistry technologies. The support and expertize of the existing major PET centers, and the recruitment of new biologists, bio-mathematicians and chemists to the field would be important for such a revival. New future applications need to be identified, the scope of targets imaged broadened, and the developed expertize exploited in other areas of medical research. Such reinvigoration of the field would enable PET to continue making significant contributions to advance the understanding of the normal and diseased brain and support the development of advanced treatments. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism (2012) 32, 1426-1454; doi: 10.1038/jcbfm.2012.20; published online 21 March 2012
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