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Abstract
Functional positron emission tomography (fPET) provides a method to track molecular targets in the human brain. With a radioactively-labelled glucose analogue, 18F-fluordeoxyglucose (FDG-fPET), it is now possible to measure the dynamics of glucose metabolism with temporal resolutions approaching those of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). This direct measure of glucose uptake has enormous potential for understanding normal and abnormal brain function and probing the effects of metabolic and neurodegenerative diseases. Further, new advances in hybrid MR-PET hardware make it possible to capture fluctuations in glucose and blood oxygenation simultaneously using fMRI and FDG-fPET. The temporal resolution and signal-to-noise of the FDG-fPET images is critically dependent upon the administration of the radiotracer. This work presents two alternative continuous infusion protocols and compares them to a traditional bolus approach. It presents a method for acquiring blood samples, time-locking PET, MRI, experimental stimulus, and administering the non-traditional tracer delivery. Using a visual stimulus, the protocol results show cortical maps of the glucose-response to external stimuli on an individual level with a temporal resolution of 16 s.
Original language | English |
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Article number | e60259 |
Journal | Journal of Visualized Experiments |
Volume | 2019 |
Issue number | 152 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 22 Oct 2019 |
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ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function
Egan, G., Rosa, M., Lowery, A., Stuart, G., Arabzadeh, E., Skafidas, E., Ibbotson, M., Petrou, S., Paxinos, G., Mattingley, J., Garrido, M., Sah, P. K., Robinson, P. A., Martin, P., Grunert, U., Tanaka, K., Mitra, P., Johnson, G., Diamond, M., Margrie, T., Leopold, D., Movshon, J., Markram, H., Victor, J., Hill, S. & Jirsa, V. K.
Australian National University (ANU), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zürich) (Federal Institute of Technology Zurich), Australian Research Council (ARC), Karolinska Institutet (Karolinska Institute), Council of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (trading as QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne) , Monash University, University of Melbourne, University of New South Wales (UNSW), University of Queensland , University of Sydney, Monash University – Internal University Contribution, NIH - National Institutes of Health (United States of America), Cornell University, New York University, Francis Crick Institute, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (International School for Advanced Studies), Duke University, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, RIKEN
25/06/14 → 31/12/21
Project: Research