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Comparative Study
. 2005 Jun;46(6):964-72.

Parametric mapping of binding in human brain of D2 receptor ligands of different affinities

Thomas Siessmeier  1 , Yun Zhou, Hans-Georg Buchholz, Christian Landvogt, Ingo Vernaleken, Markus Piel, Ralf Schirrmacher, Frank Rösch, Mathias Schreckenberger, Dean F Wong, Paul Cumming, Gerhard Gründer, Peter Bartenstein
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Comparative Study

Parametric mapping of binding in human brain of D2 receptor ligands of different affinities

Thomas Siessmeier et al. J Nucl Med. 2005 Jun.
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Abstract

(11)C-Raclopride has been widely used for PET studies of dopamine D(2/3) receptors in human brain. The long half-life of (18)F may impart advantages to the novel moderate-affinity benzamide (18)F-desmethoxyfallypride and its high-affinity congener (18)F-fallypride for competition studies and for detection of extrastriatal binding. However, the in vivo kinetics of these compounds and the quantification approaches for parametric mapping of their specific bindings have not been systematically compared.

Methods: Dynamic emission recordings of the 3 tracers were obtained in groups of healthy subjects. A conventional model, graphical analysis using metabolite-corrected arterial inputs, and models with reference tissue inputs were used to calculate voxelwise parametric maps of the equilibrium distribution volume (V(d)) and the binding potential (BP) of the 3 radioligands in brain. To test for bias, voxelwise kinetic results were compared with those obtained by volume-of-interest (VOI) analysis.

Results: The V(d) and BP estimates obtained by VOI analysis did not differ from the mean of voxelwise estimates in the same striatal volumes. In striatum, the mean (18)F-desmethoxyfallypride BP ranged from 1.9 to 2.5, whereas the mean (11)C-raclopride BP ranged from 3 to 4, depending on the method used for calculation. In contrast, the mean BP of (18)F-fallypride ranged from 16 to 27 in striatum and could also be readily quantified in the thalamus.

Conclusion: Reference tissue methods for the voxelwise calculation of binding parameters are suitable for parametric mapping of the 3 dopamine D(2/3) receptor ligands.

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