Francisco Lopez Picon
PhD
francisco.lopez@utu.fi +358 29 450 3840 +358 50 356 2885 Tykistökatu 6 Turku : 4032 : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3871-1735 |
Preclinical PET imaging, Neuropharmacology, Animal models of CNS diseases.
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- Comparison of Automatic Segmentation and Preprocessing Approaches for Dynamic Total-Body 3D Pet Images with Different Pet Tracers (2025)
- Journal of Imaging Informatics in Medicine
- Evaluation of PET imaging as a tool for detecting neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy in a preclinical animal model (2024)
- Experimental Neurology
- Evaluation of [18F]FMTEB in Sprague Dawley rats as a PET tracer for metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (2023)
- Nuclear Medicine and Biology
- ImmunoPET Directed to the Brain: A New Tool for Preclinical and Clinical Neuroscience (2023)
- Biomolecules
- Segmentation of Dynamic Total-Body [18F]-FDG PET Images Using Unsupervised Clustering (2023)
- International Journal of Biomedical Imaging
- Biomarkers of the Endocannabinoid System in Substance Use Disorders (2022)
- Biomolecules
- Dimethyl fumarate decreases short-term but not long-term inflammation in a focal EAE model of neuroinflammation (2022)
- EJNMMI Research
- Direct Comparison of [18F]F-DPA with [18F]DPA-714 and [11C]PBR28 for Neuroinflammation Imaging in the same Alzheimer’s Disease Model Mice and Healthy Controls (2022)
- Molecular Imaging and Biology
- ImmunoPET imaging of amyloid-beta in a rat model of Alzheimer’s disease with a bispecific, brain-penetrating fusion protein (2022)
- Translational Neurodegeneration
- Radiosynthesis and biological evaluation of [18F]CooP: a brain-homing peptide for imaging glioblastomas using positron emission tomography (2022)
- Nuclear Medicine and Biology
- Intravenous transplantation of olfactory ensheathing cells reduces neuroinflammation after spinal cord injury via interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (2021)
- Theranostics
- Longitudinal [18F]FDG and [13N]NH3 PET/CT imaging of brain and spinal cord in a canine hemisection spinal cord injury model (2021)
- NeuroImage: Clinical
- Prodromal neuroinflammatory, cholinergic and metabolite dysfunction detected by PET and MRS in the TgF344-AD transgenic rat model of AD: a collaborative multi-modal study (2021)
- Theranostics
- (S)-[18F]THK5117 brain uptake is associated with Aβ plaques and MAO-B enzyme in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease (2021)
- Neuropharmacology
- Comparison of high and low molar activity TSPO tracer [18F]F-DPA in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease (2020)
- Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism
- Evaluation of [F-18]F-DPA as a target for TSPO in head and neck cancer under normal conditions and after radiotherapy (2020)
- European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
- Ruthenium-Mediated 18F-Fluorination and Preclinical Evaluation of a New CB1 Receptor Imaging Agent [18F]FPATPP (2020)
- ACS Chemical Neuroscience
- A new perspective for advanced positron emission tomography-based molecular imaging in neurodegenerative proteinopathies (2019)
- Alzheimer's and Dementia
- Effect of genotype and age on cerebral [F-18]FDG uptake varies between transgenic APP(swe)-PS1(dE9) and Tg2576 mouse models of Alzheimer's disease (2019)
- Scientific Reports
- In vivo characterization of a novel norepinephrine transporter PET tracer [18F]NS12137 in adult and immature Sprague-Dawley rats (2019)
- Theranostics
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