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Auvity S, Vodovar D, Goutal S, Cisternino S, Chevillard L, Soyer A, Bottlaender M, Caillé F, Mégarbane B, Tournier N. Brain PET imaging using 11C-flumazenil and 11C-buprenorphine does not support the hypothesis of a mutual interaction between buprenorphine and benzodiazepines at the neuroreceptor level. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2024; 44:449-458. [PMID: 38097513 PMCID: PMC10870960 DOI: 10.1177/0271678x231221040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2023] [Revised: 11/20/2023] [Accepted: 11/20/2023] [Indexed: 02/16/2024]
Abstract
Among opioids, buprenorphine presents a favorable safety profile with a limited risk of respiratory depression. However, fatalities have been reported when buprenorphine is combined to a benzodiazepine. Potentiation of buprenorphine interaction with opioid receptors (ORs) with benzodiazepines, and/or vice versa, is hypothesized to explain this drug-drug interaction (DDI). The mutual DDI between buprenorphine and benzodiazepines was investigated at the neuroreceptor level in nonhuman primates (n = 4 individuals) using brain PET imaging and kinetic modelling. The binding potential (BPND) of benzodiazepine receptor (BzR) was assessed using 11C-flumazenil PET imaging before and after administration of buprenorphine (0.2 mg, i.v.). Moreover, the brain kinetics and receptor binding of buprenorphine were investigated in the same individuals using 11C-buprenorphine PET imaging before and after administration of diazepam (10 mg, i.v.). Outcome parameters were compared using a two-way ANOVA. Buprenorphine did not impact the plasma nor brain kinetics of 11C-flumazenil. 11C-flumazenil BPND was unchanged following buprenorphine exposure, in any brain region (p > 0.05). Similarly, diazepam did not impact the plasma or brain kinetics of 11C-buprenorphine. 11C-buprenorphine volume of distribution (VT) was unchanged following diazepam exposure, in any brain region (p > 0.05). To conclude, our PET imaging findings do not support a neuropharmacokinetic or neuroreceptor-related mechanism of the buprenorphine/benzodiazepine interaction.
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- Sylvain Auvity
- Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Cité, Inserm, UMRS-1144, Optimisation Thérapeutique en Neuropsychopharmacologie, 75006 Paris, France
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- Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Cité, Inserm, UMRS-1144, Optimisation Thérapeutique en Neuropsychopharmacologie, 75006 Paris, France
- Réanimation Médicale et Toxicologique, Hôpital Lariboisière, Fédération de Toxicologie (APHP), 75010, Paris
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- Université Paris-Saclay, Inserm, CNRS, CEA, Laboratoire d’Imagerie Biomédicale Multimodale (BioMaps), Orsay, France
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- Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Cité, Inserm, UMRS-1144, Optimisation Thérapeutique en Neuropsychopharmacologie, 75006 Paris, France
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- Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Cité, Inserm, UMRS-1144, Optimisation Thérapeutique en Neuropsychopharmacologie, 75006 Paris, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, Inserm, CNRS, CEA, Laboratoire d’Imagerie Biomédicale Multimodale (BioMaps), Orsay, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, Inserm, CNRS, CEA, Laboratoire d’Imagerie Biomédicale Multimodale (BioMaps), Orsay, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, Inserm, CNRS, CEA, Laboratoire d’Imagerie Biomédicale Multimodale (BioMaps), Orsay, France
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- Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Cité, Inserm, UMRS-1144, Optimisation Thérapeutique en Neuropsychopharmacologie, 75006 Paris, France
- Réanimation Médicale et Toxicologique, Hôpital Lariboisière, Fédération de Toxicologie (APHP), 75010, Paris
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- Université Paris-Saclay, Inserm, CNRS, CEA, Laboratoire d’Imagerie Biomédicale Multimodale (BioMaps), Orsay, France
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Convert L, Sarrhini O, Paillé M, Salem N, Charette PG, Lecomte R. The ultra high sensitivity blood counter: a compact, MRI-compatible, radioactivity counter for pharmacokinetic studies in µL volumes. Biomed Phys Eng Express 2022; 8. [PMID: 35038694 DOI: 10.1088/2057-1976/ac4c29] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2021] [Accepted: 01/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
Abstract
Quantification of physiological parameters in preclinical pharmacokinetic studies based on nuclear imaging requires the monitoring of arterial radioactivity over time, known as the arterial input function (AIF). Continuous derivation of the AIF in rodent models is very challenging because of the limited blood volume available for sampling. To address this challenge, an Ultra High Sensitivity Blood Counter (UHS-BC) was developed. The device detects beta particles in real-time using silicon photodiodes, custom low-noise electronics, and 3D-printed plastic cartridges to hold standard catheters. Two prototypes were built and characterized in two facilities. Sensitivities up to 39% for18F and 58% for11C-based positron emission tomography (PET) tracers were demonstrated.99mTc and125I based Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) tracers were detected with greater than 3% and 10% sensitivity, respectively, opening new applications in nuclear imaging and fundamental biology research. Measured energy spectra show all relevant peaks down to a minimum detectable energy of 20 keV. The UHS-BC was shown to be highly reliable, robust towards parasitic background radiation and electromagnetic interference in the PET or MRI environment. The UHS-BC provides reproducible results under various experimental conditions and was demonstrated to be stable over days of continuous operation. Animal experiments showed that the UHS-BC performs accurate AIF measurements using low detection volumes suitable for small animal models in PET, SPECT and PET/MRI investigations. This tool will help to reduce the time and number of animals required for pharmacokinetic studies, thus increasing the throughput of new drug development.
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- Laurence Convert
- Institut Interdisciplinaire d'Innovation Technologique (3IT), Université de Sherbrooke, 3000 boul. de l'Université, Parc Innovation, Pavillon P2, Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1K0A5, CANADA
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- Sherbrooke Molecular Imaging Centre of CRCHUS and Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiobiology, Université de Sherbrooke, 3001 12 ave Nord, Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1H 5N4, CANADA
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- Sherbrooke Molecular Imaging Centre of CRCHUS and Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiobiology, Université de Sherbrooke, 3001 12 Ave Nord, Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1H 5N4, CANADA
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- Biogen Idec Inc, 225 Binney St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02142, UNITED STATES
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- Laboratoire Nanotechnologies Nanosystèmes (LN2) - CNRS UMI-3463, Université de Sherbrooke, 3000 boul. de l'Université, Parc Innovation, Pavillon P2, Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1K 0A5, CANADA
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- Sherbrooke Molecular Imaging Centre of CRCHUS and Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiobiology, Universite de Sherbrooke, 3001 12 Ave Nord, Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1K 2R1, CANADA
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Pharmacokinetic neuroimaging to study the dose-related brain kinetics and target engagement of buprenorphine in vivo. Neuropsychopharmacology 2021; 46:1220-1228. [PMID: 33603137 PMCID: PMC8115308 DOI: 10.1038/s41386-021-00976-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2020] [Revised: 12/18/2020] [Accepted: 01/24/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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A wide range of buprenorphine doses are used for either pain management or maintenance therapy in opioid addiction. The complex in vitro profile of buprenorphine, with affinity for µ-, δ-, and κ-opioid receptors (OR), makes it difficult to predict its dose-related neuropharmacology in vivo. In rats, microPET imaging and pretreatment by OR antagonists were performed to assess the binding of radiolabeled buprenorphine (microdose 11C-buprenorphine) to OR subtypes in vivo (n = 4 per condition). The µ-selective antagonist naloxonazine (10 mg/kg) and the non-selective OR antagonist naloxone (1 mg/kg) blocked the binding of 11C-buprenorphine, while pretreatment by the δ-selective (naltrindole, 3 mg/kg) or the κ-selective antagonist (norbinaltorphimine, 10 mg/kg) did not. In four macaques, PET imaging and kinetic modeling enabled description of the regional brain kinetics of 11C-buprenorphine, co-injected with increasing doses of unlabeled buprenorphine. No saturation of the brain penetration of buprenorphine was observed for doses up to 0.11 mg/kg. Regional differences in buprenorphine-associated receptor occupancy were observed. Analgesic doses of buprenorphine (0.003 and 0.006 mg/kg), respectively, occupied 20% and 49% of receptors in the thalamus while saturating the low but significant binding observed in cerebellum and occipital cortex. Occupancy >90% was achieved in most brain regions with plasma concentrations >7 µg/L. PET data obtained after co-injection of an analgesic dose of buprenorphine (0.003 mg/kg) predicted the binding potential of microdose 11C-buprenorphine. This strategy could be further combined with pharmacodynamic exploration or pharmacological MRI to investigate the neuropharmacokinetics and neuroreceptor correlate, at least at µ-OR, of the acute effects of buprenorphine in humans.
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Chen X, Zhang S, Zhang J, Chen L, Wang R, Zhou Y. Noninvasive quantification of nonhuman primate dynamic 18F-FDG PET imaging. Phys Med Biol 2021; 66:064005. [PMID: 33709956 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/abe83b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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18F-FDG uptake rate constant Ki is the main physiology parameter measured in dynamic PET studies. A model-independent graphical analysis using Patlak plot with plasma input function (PIF) is a standard approach used to estimate Ki . The PIF is the 18F-FDG time activity curve (TAC) in plasma that is obtained by serial arterial blood sampling. The purpose of the study is to evaluate a Patlak plot-based optimization approach with reduced blood samples for noninvasive quantification of dynamic 18F-FDG PET imaging. Eight 60 min rhesus monkey brain dynamic 18F-FDG PET scans with arterial blood samples were collected. The measured PIF (mPIF) was determined by arterial blood samples. TACs of seven cerebral regions of interest were generated from each study. With a given number of blood samples, the population-based PIF (pPIF) was determined by either interpolation or extrapolation method using scale calibrated population mean of normalized PIF. The optimal sampling scheme with given blood sample size was determined by maximizing the correlations between the Ki estimated from pPIF and those obtained by mPIF. A leave-two-out cross-validation method was used for evaluation. The linear correlations between the Ki estimates from pPIF with optimal sampling schemes and those from mPIF were: Ki (pPIF 1 sample at 40 min) = 1.015 Ki (mPIF) - 0.000, R 2 = 0.974; Ki (pPIF 2 samples at 35 and 50 min) = 1.052 Ki (mPIF) - 0.001, R 2 = 0.976; Ki (pPIF 3 samples at 12, 40, and 50 min) = 1.030 Ki (mPIF) - 0.000, R 2 = 0.985; and Ki (pPIF 4 samples at 10, 20, 40, and 50 min) = 1.016 Ki (mPIF)- 0.000, R 2 = 0.993. As the sample size became greater or equal to 4, the Ki estimates from pPIF with the optimal protocol were almost identical to those from mPIF. The Patlak plot-based optimization approach is a reliable method to estimate PIF for noninvasive quantification of non-human primate dynamic 18F-FDG PET imaging and is potentially extendable to further translational human studies.
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- Xueqi Chen
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Peking University First Hospital, No.8, Xishiku St., West District, Beijing, 100034, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Peking University First Hospital, No.8, Xishiku St., West District, Beijing, 100034, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Peking University First Hospital, No.8, Xishiku St., West District, Beijing, 100034, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Peking University First Hospital, No.8, Xishiku St., West District, Beijing, 100034, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Peking University First Hospital, No.8, Xishiku St., West District, Beijing, 100034, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Peking University First Hospital, No.8, Xishiku St., West District, Beijing, 100034, People's Republic of China.,Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, 510 South Kinshighway Blvd., Campus Box 8225, St Louis, MO 63110, United States of America.,Central Research Institute, United Imaging Healthcare Group Co., Ltd, Shanghai, 201807, People's Republic of China
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Al-Enezi MS, Bentourkia M. Kinetic Modeling of Dynamic PET-¹⁸F-FDG Atherosclerosis Without Blood Sampling. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON RADIATION AND PLASMA MEDICAL SCIENCES 2020. [DOI: 10.1109/trpms.2020.3005364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Deidda D, Karakatsanis NA, Robson PM, Calcagno C, Senders ML, Mulder WJM, Fayad ZA, Aykroyd RG, Tsoumpas C. Hybrid PET/MR Kernelised Expectation Maximisation Reconstruction for Improved Image-Derived Estimation of the Input Function from the Aorta of Rabbits. CONTRAST MEDIA & MOLECULAR IMAGING 2019; 2019:3438093. [PMID: 30800014 PMCID: PMC6360049 DOI: 10.1155/2019/3438093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2018] [Revised: 11/15/2018] [Accepted: 11/21/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Positron emission tomography (PET) provides simple noninvasive imaging biomarkers for multiple human diseases which can be used to produce quantitative information from single static images or to monitor dynamic processes. Such kinetic studies often require the tracer input function (IF) to be measured but, in contrast to direct blood sampling, the image-derived input function (IDIF) provides a noninvasive alternative technique to estimate the IF. Accurate estimation can, in general, be challenging due to the partial volume effect (PVE), which is particularly important in preclinical work on small animals. The recently proposed hybrid kernelised ordered subsets expectation maximisation (HKEM) method has been shown to improve accuracy and contrast across a range of different datasets and count levels and can be used on PET/MR or PET/CT data. In this work, we apply the method with the purpose of providing accurate estimates of the aorta IDIF for rabbit PET studies. In addition, we proposed a method for the extraction of the aorta region of interest (ROI) using the MR and the HKEM image, to minimise the PVE within the rabbit aortic region-a method which can be directly transferred to the clinical setting. A realistic simulation study was performed with ten independent noise realisations while two, real data, rabbit datasets, acquired with the Biograph Siemens mMR PET/MR scanner, were also considered. For reference and comparison, the data were reconstructed using OSEM, OSEM with Gaussian postfilter and KEM, as well as HKEM. The results across the simulated datasets and different time frames show reduced PVE and accurate IDIF values for the proposed method, with 5% average bias (0.8% minimum and 16% maximum bias). Consistent results were obtained with the real datasets. The results of this study demonstrate that HKEM can be used to accurately estimate the IDIF in preclinical PET/MR studies, such as rabbit mMR data, as well as in clinical human studies. The proposed algorithm is made available as part of an open software library, and it can be used equally successfully on human or animal data acquired from a variety of PET/MR or PET/CT scanners.
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- Daniel Deidda
- Biomedical Imaging Science Department, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- Department of Statistics, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute (TMII), Department of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Division of Radiopharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute (TMII), Department of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute (TMII), Department of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute (TMII), Department of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute (TMII), Department of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute (TMII), Department of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Biomedical Imaging Science Department, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute (TMII), Department of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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Sari H, Erlandsson K, Marner L, Law I, Larsson HBW, Thielemans K, Ourselin S, Arridge S, Atkinson D, Hutton BF. Non-invasive kinetic modelling of PET tracers with radiometabolites using a constrained simultaneous estimation method: evaluation with 11C-SB201745. EJNMMI Res 2018; 8:58. [PMID: 29971517 PMCID: PMC6029994 DOI: 10.1186/s13550-018-0412-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2018] [Accepted: 06/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Background Kinetic analysis of dynamic PET data requires an accurate knowledge of available PET tracer concentration within blood plasma over time, known as the arterial input function (AIF). The gold standard method used to measure the AIF requires serial arterial blood sampling over the course of the PET scan, which is an invasive procedure and makes this method less practical in clinical settings. Traditional image-derived methods are limited to specific tracers and are not accurate if metabolites are present in the plasma. Results In this work, we utilise an image-derived whole blood curve measurement to reduce the computational complexity of the simultaneous estimation method (SIME), which is capable of estimating the AIF directly from tissue time activity curves (TACs). This method was applied to data obtained from a serotonin receptor study (11C-SB207145) and estimated parameter results are compared to results obtained using the original SIME and gold standard AIFs derived from arterial samples. Reproducibility of the method was assessed using test-retest data. It was shown that the incorporation of image-derived information increased the accuracy of total volume of distribution (V T) estimates, averaged across all regions, by 40% and non-displaceable binding potential (BP ND) estimates by 16% compared to the original SIME. Particular improvements were observed in K1 parameter estimates. BP ND estimates, based on the proposed method and the gold standard arterial sample-derived AIF, were not significantly different (P=0.7). Conclusions The results of this work indicate that the proposed method with prior AIF information obtained from a partial volume corrected image-derived whole blood curve, and modelled parent fraction, has the potential to be used as an alternative non-invasive method to perform kinetic analysis of tracers with metabolite products.
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- Hasan Sari
- Institute of Nuclear Medicine, L.5 University College Hospital, 235 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BU, UK.
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- Institute of Nuclear Medicine, L.5 University College Hospital, 235 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BU, UK
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- Neurobiology Research Unit, Center for Integrated Molecular Brain Imaging (CIMBI), Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Clinical Physiology, Nuclear Medicine and PET, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Physiology, Nuclear Medicine and PET, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Physiology, Nuclear Medicine and PET, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institute of Nuclear Medicine, L.5 University College Hospital, 235 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BU, UK
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- Centre for Medical Imaging Computing, Faculty of Engineering, University College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Medical Imaging Computing, Faculty of Engineering, University College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Medical Imaging, Division of Medicine, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Nuclear Medicine, L.5 University College Hospital, 235 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BU, UK.,Centre for Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
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