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ArticleNature communications2025

Quantitative PET imaging and modeling of molecular blood-brain barrier permeability.

Kevin J Chung, Yasser G Abdelhafez, Benjamin A Spencer, Terry Jones, Quyen Tran, Lorenzo Nardo, Moon S Chen, Souvik Sarkar, Valentina Medici, Victoria Lyo and 3 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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26 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Kevin J ChungDepartment of Radiology, University of California Davis Health, Sacramento, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4031-4365
Yasser G AbdelhafezDepartment of Radiology, University of California Davis Health, Sacramento, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1989-3094
Benjamin A SpencerDepartment of Radiology, University of California Davis Health, Sacramento, CA, USA.
Terry JonesDepartment of Radiology, University of California Davis Health, Sacramento, CA, USA.
Quyen TranDepartment of Radiology, University of California Davis Health, Sacramento, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0927-664X
Lorenzo NardoDepartment of Radiology, University of California Davis Health, Sacramento, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0266-2708
Moon S ChenDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis Health, Sacramento, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0076-2550
Souvik SarkarDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis Health, Sacramento, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9358-4257
Valentina MediciDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis Health, Sacramento, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5438-284X
Victoria LyoDepartment of Surgery, University of California Davis Health, Sacramento, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3139-7365
Ramsey D BadawiDepartment of Radiology, University of California Davis Health, Sacramento, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9769-0292
Simon R CherryDepartment of Radiology, University of California Davis Health, Sacramento, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0155-5644
Guobao WangDepartment of Radiology, University of California Davis Health, Sacramento, CA, USA. gbwang@ucdavis.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6526-1533

Funding

Shared Resource ManagementP30CA093373 · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS · 2002 to 2025
$10.6M
Single-tracer Multiparametric PET ImagingR01EB033435 · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · 2025 to 2025
$609k
Liver Parametric PETR01DK124803 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI Guobao Wang · 2023 to 2023
$524k
Building Interdisciplinary Careers/Women's Health/UC DavisK12HD051958 · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS · 2005 to 2005
$500k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA093373NCI NIH HHS R01 CA206187NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB033435NICHD NIH HHS K12 HD051958NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK124803U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) R01EB033435U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases) R01DK124803
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neuroimaging of blood-brain barrier permeability has been instrumental in identifying its broad involvement in neurological and systemic diseases. However, current methods evaluate the blood-brain barrier mainly as a structural barrier. Here we developed a non-invasive positron emission tomography method in humans to measure the blood-brain barrier permeability of molecular radiotracers that cross the blood-brain barrier through its molecule-specific transport mechanism. Our method uses high-temporal resolution dynamic imaging and kinetic modeling for multiparametric imaging and quantification of the blood-brain barrier permeability-surface area product of molecular radiotracers. We show, in humans, our method can resolve blood-brain barrier permeability across three radiotracers and demonstrate its utility in studying brain aging and brain-body interactions in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver inflammation. Our method opens new directions to effectively study the molecular permeability of the human blood-brain barrier in vivo using the large catalogue of available molecular positron emission tomography tracers.

Indexed as

Blood-Brain BarrierPositron-Emission TomographyAdultBrainFemaleHumansMalePermeabilityRadiopharmaceuticalsRadiopharmaceuticals

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PMID40159510
PMCPMC11955546

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