Frontiers in Neuroscience Imaging: Whole-Body PET.

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Division of Nuclear Medicine and Clinical Molecular Imaging, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, 1 Silverstein, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Electronic address:

Published: January 2021

Since its inception, PET imaging of the nervous system and neuropsychiatric disease has focused on the brain. Although this has resulted in many important contributions to basic science and clinical medicine, PET has not been used to explore nervous system physiology and disease throughout the remainder of the body. Our understanding of neurologic disorders has also changed during this period, and we are beginning to realize that many neuropsychiatric diseases manifest throughout the entire body. Thus, whole-body PET imaging with the Explorer instrument represents an exciting tool to address important questions in pathophysiology and develop novel pharmacologic strategies.

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