Nucl Med Mol Imaging.
2010 Jun;44(2):157-158.
Is this Red Spot the Blue Spot (locus ceruleus)?
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- 1Department of Nuclear Medicine, Gachon University Gil Hospital, Incheon 405-760, South Korea. khhwang@gilhospital.com
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- The authors report brain images of 18F-FDG-PET in a case of schizophrenia. The images showed strikingly increased bilateral uptake in the locus ceruleus. The locus ceruleus is called the blue spot and known to be a center of the norepinephrinergic system.
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