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Review
. 2022 Feb;56(1):3-16.
doi: 10.1007/s13139-021-00727-1. Epub 2022 Jan 15.

60 Years of Achievements by KSNM in Neuroimaging Research

Jae Seung Kim  1 , Hye Joo Son  2 , Minyoung Oh  1 , Dong Yun Lee  1 , Hae Won Kim  3 , Jungsu Oh  1
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60 Years of Achievements by KSNM in Neuroimaging Research

Jae Seung Kim et al. Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2022 Feb.

Abstract

Nuclear medicine neuroimaging is able to show functional and molecular biologic abnormalities in various neuropsychiatric diseases. Therefore, it has played important roles in the clinical diagnosis and in research on the normal and pathological states of the brain. More than 400 outstanding studies have been conducted by Korean researchers over the past 60 years. In the 1990s, when multiheaded single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) scanners were first introduced in South Korea, stroke research using brain perfusion SPECT was conducted. With the spread of positron emission tomography (PET) scanners in the 2000s, research on the clinical usefulness of PET and the evaluation of pathophysiology in various diseases such as epilepsy, brain tumors, degenerative brain diseases, and other neuropsychiatric diseases were actively conducted using [18F]FDG and various neuroreceptor tracers. In the 2010s, with the clinical application of new radiopharmaceuticals for amyloid and tau imaging, research demonstrating the clinical usefulness of PET imaging and the pathophysiology of dementia has increased rapidly. It is expected that the role of nuclear medicine will expand with the development of new radiopharmaceuticals and analysis technologies, along with the application of artificial intelligence for early and differential diagnosis, and the development of therapeutic agents for degenerative brain diseases.

Keywords: Brain; KSNM; PET; Research; SPECT.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of InterestJae Seung Kim, Hye Joo Son, Minyoung Oh, Dong Yun Lee, Hae Won Kim, and Jungsu Oh declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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The number of papers published in each research field of nuclear medicine neuroimaging by Korean researchers over the past 60 years
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