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Gunter Firnau

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Professor EmeritusMedical ImagingMcMaster University

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103 publications.

01

The right to left ventricular glucose uptake ratio predicts left ventricular function recovery after revascularization in heart failure

Ukkonen H, deKemp R, Ruddy TD, Davies RA, Garrard L, Aung M, Firnau G, Hendry P, Beanlands RS

Journal of the American College of Cardiology2003
02

The Effects of β1-Blockade on Oxidative Metabolism and the Metabolic Cost of Ventricular Work in Patients With Left Ventricular Dysfunction

Beanlands RSB, Nahmias C, Gordon E, Coates G, deKemp R, Firnau G, Fallen E

Circulation2000166 citations
03

Analog binding to melatonin receptors in chick brain: Effects of GTP and prazosin

Neu J, Niles LP, Brough PA, Chen JJ, Snieckus V, Firnau G

Medicinal Chemistry Research20001 citationsSenior author
04

Synthesis of N-[11C]acetyl-serotonin: Potential PET tracer for melatonin producing tissue

Chen CJ, Firnau G, Nahmias C, Coates G

Journal of Labelled Compounds and Radiopharmaceuticals1999
05

Repeated recovery, distillation and reuse of oxygen-18 water in 18O(p,n)18F high pressure target

Chen JJ, Chirakal R, Rashid F, Firnau G, Coates G, Nahmias C

Journal of Labelled Compounds and Radiopharmaceuticals1999
06

Agonistic action of 2-phenylmelatonin on adenylyl cyclase activity in the rat hypothalamus

Niles LP, Wang J, Brough P, Snieckus V, Firnau G

Pharmacology Reviews and Communications1999Senior author
07

Enzymatic synthesis of (−)‐6‐[18F]‐fluoronorepinephrine from 6‐[18F]‐fluorodopamine by dopamine β‐hydroxylase

Lui E, Chirakal R, Firnau G

Journal of Labelled Compounds and Radiopharmaceuticals19988 citationsSenior author
08

Synthesis of 2-iodo- and 2-phenyl-[11C]melatonin: potential PET tracers for melatonin binding sites

Chen JJ, Fiehn-Schulze B, Brough PA, Snieckus V, Firnau G

Applied Radiation and Isotopes19987 citationsSenior author
09

Dopamine D2 receptors quantified in vivo in human narcolepsy

MacFarlane JG, List SJ, Moldofsky H, Firnau G, Chen JJ, Szechtman H, Garnett S, Nahmias C

Biological Psychiatry199732 citations
10

Direct radiofluorination of dopamine: 18F-labeled 6-fluorodopamine for imaging cardiac sympathetic innervation in humans using positron emission tomography

Chirakal R, Coates G, Firnau G, Schrobilgen GJ, Nahmias C

Nuclear Medicine and Biology199613 citations
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