PET Imaging of Serotonin Transporters with [11C]DASB: TestRetest Reproducibility Using a Multilinear Reference Tissue Parametric Imaging Method
Jae Seung Kim, MD1,2,
Masanori Ichise, MD1,3,
Janet Sangare, MS1 and
Robert B. Innis, MD, PhD1
1 Molecular Imaging Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland; 2 Department of Nuclear Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; and 3 Nuclear Medicine Division, Brain Molecular Imaging Program, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

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FIGURE 1. Test (left column) and retest (right column) parametric images of BP (top row) and R1 (bottom row) of a representative subject. Th = thalamus; Ra = raphe; Hyp = hypothalamus; Cg = cingulate gyrus.
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FIGURE 2. MRI superimposed with t-statistic maps obtained from SPM comparing test and retest studies using height threshold of uncorrected P = 0.05 and extent threshold of 100 voxels. (A) t-statistic maps comparing BP values of test and retest (test > retest). (B) t-statistic maps comparing R1 values of test and retest (test < retest).
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