COVID-19 and the brain: impact on nuclear medicine in neurology

Silvia Morbelli; Ozgul Ekmekcioglu; Henryk Barthel; Nathalie L Albert; Ronald Boellaard; Diego Cecchin; Eric Guedj; Adriaan A Lammertsma; Ian Law; Ivan Penuelas; Franck Semah; Tatjana Traub-Weidinger; Elsmarieke van de Giessen; Andrea Varrone; Valentina Garibotto; EANM Neuroimaging Committee

doi:10.1007/s00259-020-04965-x

COVID-19 and the brain: impact on nuclear medicine in neurology

Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2020 Oct;47(11):2487-2492. doi: 10.1007/s00259-020-04965-x.

Authors

Silvia Morbelli^{1

2}, Ozgul Ekmekcioglu³, Henryk Barthel⁴, Nathalie L Albert⁵, Ronald Boellaard⁶, Diego Cecchin⁷, Eric Guedj⁸, Adriaan A Lammertsma⁶, Ian Law⁹, Ivan Penuelas¹⁰, Franck Semah¹¹, Tatjana Traub-Weidinger¹², Elsmarieke van de Giessen¹³, Andrea Varrone¹⁴, Valentina Garibotto^{15

16}; EANM Neuroimaging Committee

Affiliations

¹ IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy. silviadaniela.morbelli@hsanmartino.it.
² Nuclear Medicine Unit, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Department of Health Sciences(DISSAL), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy. silviadaniela.morbelli@hsanmartino.it.
³ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Sisli Etfal Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
⁴ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.
⁵ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Ludwig Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
⁶ Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam UMC, Location VUmc, De Boelelaan, 1117, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
⁷ Nuclear Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine - DIMED, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
⁸ APHM, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, Institut Fresnel, Timone Hospital, CERIMED, Nuclear Medicine Department, Aix Marseille Univ, Marseille, France.
⁹ Department of Clinical Physiology, Nuclear Medicine and PET, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
¹⁰ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Clinica Universidad de Navarra, IdiSNA, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
¹¹ Nuclear Medicine Department, University Hospital, Lille, France.
¹² Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
¹³ Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam UMC, Location AMC, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
¹⁴ Centre for Psychiatry Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet & Stockholm Health Care Services, Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden.
¹⁵ NIMTLab, Faculty of Medicine, Geneva University, Geneva, Switzerland.
¹⁶ Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland.

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Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus*
Brain / diagnostic imaging
Brain / virology
COVID-19
Clinical Trials as Topic
Coronavirus Infections* / complications
Coronavirus Infections* / diagnostic imaging
Coronavirus Infections* / epidemiology
Delivery of Health Care
Dementia / therapy
Health Services Accessibility
Health Services Needs and Demand
Humans
Nervous System Diseases / complications
Nervous System Diseases / diagnostic imaging
Nervous System Diseases / virology
Neuroimaging / methods*
Neuroimaging / statistics & numerical data
Nuclear Medicine Department, Hospital / organization & administration*
Observational Studies as Topic
Olfaction Disorders / etiology
Olfaction Disorders / virology
Pandemics*
Pneumonia, Viral* / complications
Pneumonia, Viral* / diagnostic imaging
Pneumonia, Viral* / epidemiology
Positron-Emission Tomography
Quarantine
SARS-CoV-2
Thrombophilia / etiology
Thrombophilia / virology
Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon