Louis Sokoloff - Pioneer of PET Scanning

As 2015 draws to a close, NIMH marks the passing, earlier this year, of Dr. Louis Sokoloff. Through development of the technique used to image metabolism in PET scanning, the NIMH intramural neuroscientist helped open a window into the living human brain.
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Credits:

Photo: Louis Sokoloff - U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health

Video clips: Control room and Scanner - Patient information on PET scans in cancer clinical trials, NCRI Cancer Conference (UK),    • Patient information on PET scans in c...  

Video clips: PET images, animation -- Depression Biomarker Study: Using Brain Scans to Help Choose Treatment Type – Emory University,    • Видео  

Video clips: PET animation – How Does a PET Scanner Work – National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering,    • How Does a PET Scan Work?  

Video clip: Whole Body Simultaneous PET and MRI Scanner – NIH Clinical Center

PET scan brain images – Karen Berman, John Cappelletti, Wayne Drevets, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Alexander Neumeister, NIMH

Video excerpts: Claudia Wassmann, “Imaging the Brain, Finding Emotion: A History of Brain Imaging and Research in Emotion,” NIH videocast, http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?1...

Video excerpts: “History of Neuroscience: Louis Sokoloff,” Society for Neuroscience,    • History of Neuroscience: Louis Sokoloff  

Photo: Phineas Gage Skull, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas...

Music: "Do You Want To?" Charles Tolbert

A longer version of this video is viewable at:
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