A probe for intracerebral aromatic amino
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Dr. Claude Nahmias; Lindi Wahl; Raman Chirakal; Gunter Firnau; E. Stephen Garnet
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Article
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1995
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Positron tomography, using ['8F]6-fluoro-~-dopa as a tracer, has been used for the study of Parkinson's disease. Unfortunately, the analysis of data obtained with this agent is bedeviled because it readily forms labeled methylated metabolites that enter the brain. We have evaluated ['sF16-fluoro-L-m