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ArticleJournal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism2026

High-resolution in utero SV2A PET imaging of the nonhuman primate brain using the NeuroEXPLORER.

Saloni Mehta, Huili Sun, Nicola Micali, Daniel Holden, Krista Fowles, Samantha Rossano, Jiazhen Zhang, Chao Ma, Paul Han, Wonil Lee and 6 more

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Article in Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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16 authors.

Saloni MehtaDepartment of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1775-4776
Huili SunDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4851-3046
Nicola MicaliDepartment of Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0009-0002-2936-4708
Daniel HoldenDepartment of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0009-0005-0446-7593
Krista FowlesDepartment of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Samantha RossanoDepartment of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0986-9100
Jiazhen ZhangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0009-0003-1031-9592
Chao MaDepartment of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2016-8084
Paul HanDepartment of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1650-1347
Wonil LeeDepartment of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2144-0211
Alvaro DuqueDepartment of Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5086-5438
Pasko RakicDepartment of Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6963-0508
Stephanie M GromanDepartment of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Richard E CarsonDepartment of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9338-7966
Dustin ScheinostDepartment of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6301-1167
Takuya ToyonagaDepartment of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0369-8294

Funding

Origin of Cortical Species-specific DistinctionsR37DA023999 · NIDA · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI PASKO RAKIC · 2020 to 2026
$5.6M
NIDA NIH HHS R37 DA023999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The NeuroEXPLORER (NX), a next generation brain-dedicated PET scanner, has demonstrated improved spatial resolution and sensitivity compared with previous PET scanners. In this study, we performed synaptic vesicle glycoprotein 2A (SV2A) PET, an in vivo marker of synaptic density, to evaluate the performance of the NX in both fetal and maternal brains of four pregnant rhesus macaques. Results were compared with the previously acquired PET images using miniEXPLORER and Biograph mCT for fetal and maternal brains (four pregnant monkeys per scanner). The NX demonstrated superior performance compared with the other scanners, providing improved image clarity and higher distribution volume ratios (DVRs), which were significant in the occipital region and putamen of the fetal brain (

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in utero brain imagingNeuroEXPLORERnext generation PET systemSV2A PETsynaptic density

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PMID41823342
PMCPMC12987752

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