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KMID : 1148920100440020157
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Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
2010 Volume.44 No. 2 p.157 ~ p.158
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Is this Red Spot the Blue Spot (locus ceruleus)?
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Choe Won-Sick
Lee Yu-Kyung
Lee Min-Kyung
Hwang Kyung-Hoon
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Abstract
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The authors report brain images of 18F-FDG-PET in a case of schizophrenia. The images showed strikingly increased bilateral uptake in the locus ceruleus. The locus ceruleus is called the blue spot and known to be a center of the norepinephrinergic system.
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KEYWORD
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18F-FDG, Brain images, Schizophrenia, Locus ceruleus, Blue spot
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