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Creating Dynamic Images of Short-lived Dopamine Fluctuations with lp-ntPET: Dopamine Movies of Cigarette Smoking
JoVE Journal
Behavior
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JoVE Journal Behavior
Creating Dynamic Images of Short-lived Dopamine Fluctuations with lp-ntPET: Dopamine Movies of Cigarette Smoking
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14:21 min

August 06, 2013

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Chapters

  • 00:05Title
  • 03:08Preparation for PET
  • 04:16PET Acquisition
  • 05:26Image Processing
  • 09:51Results: Ip-ntPET and Cigarette Smoking
  • 12:24Conclusion

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We present a novel PET imaging approach for capturing dopamine fluctuations induced by cigarette smoking. Subjects smoke in the PET scanner. Dynamic PET images are modeled voxel-by-voxel in time by lp-ntPET, which includes a time-varying dopamine term. The results are 'movies' of dopamine fluctuations in the striatum during smoking.

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