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Andrea Varrone

Andrea Varrone

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D-Index
58
Citations
11120
World Ranking
4192
National Ranking
75

Overview

Andrea Varrone is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and has contributed extensively to research in medicine, particularly focusing on neurology and imaging techniques. Their work spans a variety of specialized fields including radiology, nuclear medicine, cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, and physiology.

Their research covers multiple principal topics, such as:

  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Parkinson's Disease mechanisms and treatments
  • Medical imaging techniques and applications
  • Advanced MRI techniques and applications
  • Genetic neurodegenerative diseases
  • Adenosine and purinergic signaling
  • Neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior

Andrea Varrone has published in several frequent venues, including:

  • European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
  • Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism
  • EJNMMI Research
  • ACS Chemical Neuroscience
  • Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Among their recent papers are:

  • "EANM procedure guidelines for brain PET imaging using [18F]FDG, version 3," 2021, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
  • "EANM practice guideline/SNMMI procedure standard for dopaminergic imaging in Parkinsonian syndromes 1.0," 2020, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
  • "Brain exposure of the ATM inhibitor AZD1390 in humans-a positron emission tomography study," 2020, Neuro-Oncology
  • "PET Molecular Imaging of Phosphodiesterase 10A: An Early Biomarker of Huntington's Disease Progression," 2020, Movement Disorders
  • "Glia Imaging Differentiates Multiple System Atrophy from Parkinson's Disease: A Positron Emission Tomography Study with [11C]PBR28 and Machine Learning Analysis," 2021, Movement Disorders

Their collaborative network includes frequent co-authors such as:

  • Christer Halldin
  • Magnus Schou
  • Patrik Fazio
  • Sangram Nag
  • Zsolt Cselényi

Best Publications

  • Changes in Cortical Dopamine D1 Receptor Binding Associated with Cognitive Training

    F McNab;A Varrone;L Farde;A Jucaite

  • Strategic roadmap for an early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease based on biomarkers

    Giovanni B Frisoni;Marina Boccardi;Frederik Barkhof;Kaj Blennow;Kaj Blennow

  • EANM procedure guidelines for PET brain imaging using [(18)F]FDG : version 2

    Andrea Varrone;Susanne Asenbaum;Thierry Vander Borght;Jan Booij

  • EANM procedure guidelines for brain neurotransmission SPECT using (123)I-labelled dopamine transporter ligands, version 2

    Jacques Darcourt;Jan Booij;Klaus Tatsch;Andrea Varrone

  • Sex differences in the serotonin 1A receptor and serotonin transporter binding in the human brain measured by PET.

    Hristina Jovanovic;Johan Lundberg;Per Karlsson;Åsta Cerin

  • European multicentre database of healthy controls for [123I]FP-CIT SPECT (ENC-DAT): age-related effects, gender differences and evaluation of different methods of analysis

    Andrea Varrone;John C. Dickson;Livia Tossici-Bolt;Terez Sera

  • [123I]β‐CIT SPECT imaging demonstrates reduced density of striatal dopamine transporters in Parkinson's disease and multiple system atrophy

    Andrea Varrone;Kenneth L. Marek;Danna Jennings;Robert B. Innis;Robert B. Innis

  • Effect of the myeloperoxidase inhibitor AZD3241 on microglia: a PET study in Parkinson's disease.

    Aurelija Jucaite;Per Svenningsson;Juha O. Rinne;Zsolt Cselényi

  • Advancement in PET quantification using 3D-OP-OSEM point spread function reconstruction with the HRRT

    Andrea Varrone;Nils Sjöholm;Lars Eriksson;Lars Eriksson;Balazs Gulyás

  • EANM Practice Guideline/SNMMI Procedure Standard for Dopaminergic Imaging in Parkinsonian Syndromes 1.0

    Silvia Morbelli;Giuseppe Esposito;Javier Arbizu;Henryk Barthel

  • Allele-selective transcriptional repression of mutant HTT for the treatment of Huntington’s disease

    Bryan Zeitler;Steven Froelich;Kimberly Marlen;David A. Shivak

  • EANM procedure guideline for brain perfusion SPECT using 99mTc-labelled radiopharmaceuticals, version 2.

    Özlem L. Kapucu;Flavio Nobili;Andrea Varrone;Jan Booij

  • EANM procedure guidelines for brain tumour imaging using labelled amino acid analogues.

    Thierry Vander Borght;S. Asenbaum;P. Bartenstein;C. Halldin

  • Quantification of Dopamine Transporter in Human Brain Using PET with 18F-FE-PE2I

    Takeshi Sasaki;Hiroshi Ito;Yasuyuki Kimura;Ryosuke Arakawa

  • Molecular Imaging of the Dopamine Transporter

    Andrea Varrone;Christer Halldin

  • Phosphodiesterase 10A Inhibition Improves Cortico-Basal Ganglia Function in Huntington’s Disease Models

    Vahri Beaumont;Sheng Zhong;Hai Lin;WenJin Xu

  • Safety and tolerability of intracerebroventricular PDGF-BB in Parkinson’s disease patients

    Gesine Paul;Olof Zachrisson;Andrea Varrone;Per Almqvist

  • Test-retest reproducibility of [(11)C]PBR28 binding to TSPO in healthy control subjects.

    K. Collste;A. Forsberg;A. Varrone;N. Amini

  • The immune response of the human brain to abdominal surgery

    Anton Forsberg;Simon Cervenka;Malin Jonsson Fagerlund;Malin Jonsson Fagerlund;Lars S. Rasmussen

  • Automatic semi-quantification of [123I]FP-CIT SPECT scans in healthy volunteers using BasGan version 2: results from the ENC-DAT database.

    Flavio Nobili;Mehrdad Naseri;Fabrizio De Carli;Susan Asenbaum

  • Effects of age, BMI and sex on the glial cell marker TSPO - a multicentre [11C]PBR28 HRRT PET study.

    Jouni Tuisku;Jouni Tuisku;Pontus Plavén-Sigray;Edward C. Gaiser;Laura Airas;Laura Airas

  • In vivo TSPO imaging in patients with multiple sclerosis: a brain PET study with [18F]FEDAA1106

    Akihiro Takano;Fredrik Piehl;Jan Hillert;Andrea Varrone

  • Age and disease related changes in the translocator protein (TSPO) system in the human brain: Positron emission tomography measurements with [11C]vinpocetine

    Balázs Gulyás;Ádám Vas;Miklós Tóth;Akihiro Takano

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars Farde
Lars Farde Karolinska Institute
Balázs Gulyás
Balázs Gulyás Nanyang Technological University
Flavio Nobili
Flavio Nobili University of Genoa
Agneta Nordberg
Agneta Nordberg Karolinska University Hospital
Susanne Asenbaum
Susanne Asenbaum Medical University of Vienna
Mats Lekander
Mats Lekander Karolinska Institute
Valentina Garibotto
Valentina Garibotto University of Geneva
Juha O. Rinne
Juha O. Rinne Turku University Hospital
Karl Herholz
Karl Herholz University of Manchester

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