Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging  2008;42(6):425-434

Practical Approach for the Clinical Use of Dopamine Transporter Imaging.

Jae Seung KIM 1

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Keywords

Dopamine transporter; Parkinson's disease; positron emission tomography; single photon emission computed tomography; drug; analysis

Country

Republic of Korea

Language

Korean

Abstract

Dopamine transporter imaging is useful in the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease and the most successful technique in the clinical use of neuroreceptor imaging. Recently, several radiopharmaceuticals including I-123 FP-CIT, Tc-99m TRODAT, and F-18 FP-CIT for dopamine transporter imaging have been approved for the routine clinical use in several European countries, Taiwan and Korea, respectively. This review summarized the practical issue for the routine clinical examination of dopamine transporter imaging.