Imaging microglial activation in tacrolimus-associated CNS vasculitis with translocator protein PET.

Neurology

From the Institute of Clinical Neuroimmunology (C.M., M.K., T.K.) and Departments of Nuclear Medicine (M.U., L.V., S.L., P.B., N.A.), Neurology (C.M.), Radiology (B.E.-W.), and Neuroradiology (M.P.), University Hospital, and Biomedical Center (C.M., M.K., T.K.) and Center for Neuropathology and Prion Research (R.E.), LMU Munich; and Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy) (P.B., M.K.), Germany.

Published: November 2018

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