Clinical Study

Overeating Behavior and Striatal Dopamine with 6- [ 1 8 F ] -Fluoro-L- 𝑚 -Tyrosine PET

Figure 2

Relationship between body mass index (BMI, kg/m2) and FMT uptake in the dorsal caudate averaged over left and right hemispheres in 15 young healthy individuals. FMT uptake reflects dopamine synthesis capacity and is measured as partial volume corrected influx constant, or Ki in 1/min.
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