University of Navarre, Pamplona, Spain

CIMA, Center for Applied Medical Research

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Group Description

The University of Navarre has experience in the performance of PET imaging in populations of well-characterized dementia patients. The Memory Disorders Unit, at the University Hospital, follows a cohort of patients with mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer’s disease or vascular dementia. Prospectively, patients and controls are studied with neuropsychological batteries, FDG PET, MRI and MRs, as well as with a number of biological markers. The PET facility currently operates a high resolution PET scanner, (ECAT EXACT HR+); a PET/CT (Biograph LSO) will also be operative in November 2003. Additionally, a MicroPET, with a resolution of 1,5 mm, will be installed in 2004. The PET Radiochemistry Laboratory produces radioisotope using an IBA 18/9 MeV cyclotron. Compounds which are routinely produced are [F-18]FDG, [F-18]FDOPA, [C-11]Methionine, N-methyl[11C]Choline, [O-15]H2O, [N-13]Amonia, and [F-18]fluorohydroxybuthyl-guanine (FHBG). As 11C-Raclopride and 11C-FLB457 have also been produced it would be easy to produce [11C] flumazenil. [read more]

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