Various brain imaging techniques have become available in the past decade. These include
techniques to evaluate brain structure, such as computed tomography and magnetic …

Duration of Occupancy of Opiate Receptors by Naltrexone Page 1 Duration of Occupancy of
Opiate Receptors by Naltrexone Myung C. Lee, Henry N. Wagner, Jr., Shuji Tañada,J. James …

Abstract Naloxone is a World Health Organization (WHO)-listed essential medicine and is
the first choice for treating the respiratory depression of opioids, also by lay-people …

Non-human animal studies outline precise mechanisms of central mu-opioid regulation of
pain, stress, affiliation and reward processing. In humans, pharmacological blockade with …

Neutral amino acid transport into human brain was measured using a dual-probe positron
detection system or positron emission tomography (PET). Rate constants (ml/min/cc) for …

Presented in an interesting, historical and philosophical way, this book describes the current
state of play in brain imaging, showing the differences among the different imaging …

Nuclear reactor production techniques and synthetic methods of preparing 18 F organic
radio-pharmaceuticals were reviewed in an IAEA Consultants' Meeting. In addition, the …

A simple time-of-flight (TOF) positron imaging method is proposed, in which any computed
tomographic algorithm is not utilized but the spatial resolution obtained with TOF information …

The invention of the Anger scintillation camera and the development of 99nTctracers
brought about a tenfold increase in nuclear brain scanning between 1963 and 1973, an …

A simple dual detector coincidence system was used to measure the binding of [11 C]
carfentanil and [11 C] diprenorphine to opiate receptors in normal volunteers before and …