E-mail:

<hidehiko@bic.mni.mcgill.ca>

Office phone:

(514) 398-1996/1998

Office fax:

(514) 398-8948

Research Interests

• Imaging of alpha-methyltryptophan
• Kinetic modeling using PET and clinical application
• Activation studies with O-15 water
  • Methodology of O-15 water study
  • Activation studies with language tasks
  • Clinical application of activation study

Publications

• Cochlear implant efficiency in pre- and postlingually deaf subjects - A study with (H2O)-O-15 and PET.
  Okazawa H, Naito Y et al. Brain 1996; 119:1297-1306.
• Measurement of regional cerebral blood flow with copper-62-PTSM and a three-compartment model.
  Okazawa H, Yonekura Y et al. J Nucl Med 1996; 37: 1089-1093.
• Measurement of regional cerebral plasma pool and hematocrit with copper-62-labeled HSA-DTS.
  Okazawa H, Yonekura Y et al. J Nucl Med 1996; 37: 1080-1085.
• Delayed data acquisition for optimal PET activation studies with oxygen-15-water in cerebral arteriovenous malformation.
  Okazawa H, Yonekura Y et al. J Nucl Med 1995; 36: 2149-53.
• Clinical application and quantitative evaluation of generator-produced copper-62-PTSM as a brain perfusion tracer for PET.
  Okazawa H, Yonekura Y et al. J Nucl Med 1994; 35: 1910-5.
• Other publications & presentations

Links

• Home page of Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan.
• Home page of Brain Imaging Centre, MNI