Nucl Med Mol Imaging.  2022 Feb;56(1):3-16. 10.1007/s13139-021-00727-1.

60 Years of Achievements by KSNM in Neuroimaging Research

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Nuclear Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • 2Department of Nuclear Medicine, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan, Republic of Korea
  • 3Department of Nuclear Medicine, Keimyung University Dongsan Hospital, Daegu, Republic of Korea

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 usin [ 18 F]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.

Keyword

Brain; SPECT ; PET; Research; KSNM
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