Toward Clinical Application of Neuropsychological Activation Probes with SPECT: A Spatial Working Memory Task
Ingeborg Goethals, MD1,
Kurt Audenaert, MD, PhD2,
Filip Jacobs, MSc, PhD1,
Christophe Van De Wiele, MD, PhD1,
Griet Vermeir, MSc3,
André Vandierendonck, PhD3,
Cees Van Heeringen, MD, PhD2 and
Rudi Dierckx, MD, PhD1
1 Division of Nuclear Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
2 Department of Psychiatry, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
3 Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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FIGURE 1. Computer screen with target rectangles (stimuli). Solid lines indicate bright-white and dotted lines indicate gray-shaded rectangles on computer screen.
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FIGURE 2. Split-dose activation paradigm.
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FIGURE 3. Glass-brain images indicate projections of activation clusters in the memory task.
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