Metabolic Rates in Small Brain Nuclei Determined by High-Resolution PET
Wolf-Dieter Heiss, MD1,2,
Birgit Habedank, MD1,
Johannes Christian Klein, MD1,
Karl Herholz, MD2,
Klaus Wienhard, PhD1,
Mark Lenox3 and
Ron Nutt, PhD4
1 Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research, Köln, Germany
2 Department of Neurology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
3 CPS Innovations, Knoxville, Tennessee
4 CTI Molecular Imaging, Knoxville, Tennessee

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FIGURE 1. Identification of small brain nuclei on coregistered MRI and PET slices of a volunteer. Mean values and SDs of rCMRGlc in these structures from 9 volunteers are given in brackets.
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