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Clinical Use of SPET Imaging in Psychiatric and Neurological Disease

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Recent advances in SPET technology have produced increased sensitivity and resolution of SPET systems (see Chaps. 2 and 3), allowing the technique to be applied in new and exciting ways to the understanding of clinical disease, particularly in the expanding fields of neurology and psychiatry. Functional neuroimaging has allowed clinicians to ‘bypass the skull’ and examine the active human brain in health and disease. SPET can aid doctors as never before as they make complex clinical decisions about patients.

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  1. Raymond Way Neuropsychiatry Research Group, Department of Clinical Neurology, Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, England

    Mark S. George MD (Visiting Research Fellow, Neuropsychiatry Research Fellow)

  2. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, S.C., USA

    Mark S. George MD (Visiting Research Fellow, Neuropsychiatry Research Fellow)

  3. Raymond Way Neuropsychiatry Research Group, Department of Clinical Neurology, Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, England

    Howard A. Ring MRCPsych (Raymond Way Lecturer in Neuropsychiatry)

  4. Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine (UCMSM), London, England

    Durval C. Costa MD, MSc, PhD (Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant)

  5. Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine (UCMSM), London, England

    Peter J. Ell MD, MSc, PD, FRCR, FRCP (Professor of Nuclear Medicine)

  6. Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine (UCMSM), London, England

    Kypros Kouris PhD (Lecturer, Associate Professor)

  7. University of Kuwait, Kuwait City, Kuwait

    Kypros Kouris PhD (Lecturer, Associate Professor)

  8. Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine (UCMSM), London, England

    Peter H. Jarritt PhD (Senior Lecturer)

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George, M.S., Ring, H.A., Costa, D.C., Ell, P.J., Kouris, K., Jarritt, P.H. (1991). Clinical Use of SPET Imaging in Psychiatric and Neurological Disease. In: Neuroactivation and Neuroimaging with SPET. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1901-2_4

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