Journal
SYNAPSE
Volume 65, Issue 7, Pages 553-561Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/syn.20874
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D-2 receptor; positron emission tomography; DA; nicotine; craving; striatum
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- ABMRF/The Foundation for Alcohol Research (KKY)
- NIAAA [P60 AA007611]
- Indiana CTSI, Clinical Research Center [UL RR025761]
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Knowledge of the reproducibility of striatal [C-11]raclopride (RAC) binding is important for studies that use RAC PET paradigms to estimate changes in striatal dopamine (DA) during pharmacological and cognitive challenges. To our knowledge, no baseline test-retest data exist for nontreatment-seeking alcoholics (NTS). We determined the test-retest reproducibility of baseline RAC binding potential (BPND) in 12 male NTS subjects. Subjects were scanned twice with single-bolus RAC PET on separate days. Striatal RAC BP (BPND) for left and right dorsal caudate, dorsal putamen, and ventral striatum was estimated using the Multilinear Reference Tissue Method (MRTM) and Logan Graphical Analysis (LGA) with a reference region. Test-retest variability (TRV), % change in BPND between scan days, and the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) were used as metrics of reproducibility. For MRTM, TRV for striatal RAC binding in NTS subjects was +/- 66.5% and +/- 67.1% for LGA. Average striatal ICCs were 0.94 for both methods (P < 0.0001). Striatal BPND values were similar to those reported previously for detoxified alcoholics. The results demonstrate that baseline striatal RAC binding is highly reproducible in NTS subjects, with a low variance similar to that reported for healthy control subjects. Synapse 65: 553-561, 2011. (C) 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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