Assessment of cerebral dopamine D2/3-receptors in patients with bilateral vestibular failure

Issue title: The Vestibular System: A Clinical and Scientific Update in Siena. In honor of Professor Daniele Nuti, Siena, Italy, April 5–6, 2013

Guest editors: Marco Mandalàx, Stefano Ramaty and David S. Zee

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Jansen, Nathalie L.^{a; c;} | Feuerecker, Regina^{b; c;} | Becker-Bense, Sandra^{b; c} | Zwergal, Andreas^{b; c} | Wulff, Melanie^{b; c} | Xiong, Guoming^{a; c} | Wängler, Björn^d | Cumming, Paul^{e; f} | Bartenstein, Peter^{a; c; g} | Dieterich, Marianne^{b; c; g; *} | la Fougère, Christian^{c; f; h;}

Affiliations: [a] Department of Nuclear Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany | [b] Department of Neurology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany | [c] German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders, IFB^LMU, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany | [d] Institute for Clinical Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany | [e] Department of Nuclear Medicine, Friedrich-Alexander's University, Erlangen/Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany | [f] Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark | [g] Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology, Munich, Germany | [h] Department of Clinical Molecular Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany | [x] Otological and Skull Base Surgery Department, S.M. delle Scotte Hospital, Siena, Italy | [y] Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Marianne Dieterich, Department of Neurology, University of Munich, Marchioninistrasse 15, D-81377 Munich, Germany. Tel.: +49 89 4400 72571; Fax: +49 89 4400 78883; E-mail: marianne.dieterich@med.uni-muenchen.de

Note: [1] These authors contributed equally

Keywords: [¹⁸F]FP, PET, dopamine D_2/3-receptors, bilateral vestibular failure

DOI: 10.3233/VES-140526

Journal: Journal of Vestibular Research, vol. 24, no. 5-6, pp. 403-413, 2014