Radiation alarm at an airport after radioiodine therapy.

abstract：:The blood flow in renal transplants can be represented by (1) a K/A ratio, the ratio of the slopes of the ascending part of the renal perfusion curve and the arterial curve, (2) a perfusion index, the ratio of a part of the area under the first-pass arterial curve and renal curve, and (3) a height ratio, the ratio of ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Groothedde RT,Koppejan LJ,Heidendal GK,Hasman A

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PET holds potential to provide additional information about tumour metabolic processes, which could aid brain tumour differential diagnosis, grading, molecular subtyping and/or the distinction of therapy effects from disease recurrence. This review discusses PET techniques currently in use for untreated and treated gl...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Mansoor NM,Thust S,Militano V,Fraioli F

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Lymphoid hyperplasia is not uncommon in the midline roof of the nasopharynx. Most nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients present with primary tumors in the midline of the nasopharynx. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of 2-[fluorine-18] fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose ((18)F-FDG) PET/computed tomography (C...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Chen YK,Wang SC,Cheng RH,Yeh CL,Tsui CC,Chia-Hung K

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In normal adults, the maintenance of phosphate balance involves the reabsorption of 85-90% of filtered phosphate by the proximal tubule. At a glomerular filtration rate (GFR) of 125 ml min-1 and a plasma phosphate concentration of 1.3 mmol l-1, the filtered phosphate is approximately 235 mmol day-1. Following intraven...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Nair N,Mahadeo DS,Patel R

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated a simple and reliable method for the preparation of 99Tcm-dimercaptosuccinic acid (99Tcm(V)-DMSA) without the addition of oxygen. The effect of pH, amount of reducing agent, and oxygen addition in the synthesis of 99Tcm(V)-DMSA were evaluated. At pH 9, we obtained a radiochemical yield of 95% +/- 1.2% ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Oh SJ,Ha HJ,Moon DH,Ryu JS,Lee HK

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the dual window scatter subtraction method was tested for first-pass radiocardiography using 99Tcm. The photopeak window of 126-154 keV (20%) and Compton window of 93-125 keV (30%) were used. The set of scattered images was multiplied by a factor of 0.4 and subtracted from the primary images. The size of...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Kauppinen T,Koskinen M,Kööbi T

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of wipe tests for assessing 99Tcm surface contamination was measured. Four types of surface were contaminated with four radiopharmaceuticals and wiped using four types of swab. The fraction of activity removed was measured by direct monitoring for each combination of surface, pharmaceutical and swab. The ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Scott LE,Gibson CJ

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Impaired cardiac fatty acid uptake, assessed by the radiolabelled fatty acid analogue beta-methyl-p-iodophenyl pentadecanoic acid (I-123-BMIPP), is observed in the myocardium following acute ischaemic events, but the long-term prognostic implication has not been established. This study aimed to determine the prognosti...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Nakata T,Kobayashi T,Tamaki N,Kobayashi H,Wakabayashi T,Shimoshige S,Oh-Hori K,Hamabe K,Hirasawa K,Matsuki T,Shogase T,Furudate M,Shimamoto K

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of PET instrumentation signaled the beginning of a new perspective in nuclear medicine diagnostic imaging. PET systems rely on several corrections that must be applied in order to establish accurate and reliable quantification. The inherent properties of PET detector architecture and the crystals themselves...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Theodorakis L,Loudos G,Prassopoulos V,Kappas C,Tsougos I,Georgoulias P

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of automatic exposure control (AEC) in order to optimize low-dose computed tomography (CT) protocols for patients of different ages undergoing cardiac PET/CT and single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT). METHODS:One PET/CT and one SPECT...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Yang CC,Yang BH,Tu CY,Wu TH,Liu SH

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and twenty-eight patients had a stress test with sestamibi injection and a coronarography within 2 months of the sestamibi study. Sestamibi studies were reconstructed using Hanning 0.65 and Wiener 1.0 filters; the latter improved the results significantly (P < 0.05). Significant correlations were found bet...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Solot G,Hermans J,Merlo P,Chaudron JM,Luwaert R,Cheron P,Bodart F,Beauduin M

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:It is known that fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose PET/computed tomography (CT) segmentation algorithms have an impact on the metabolic tumor volume (MTV). This leads to some uncertainties in PET/CT guidance of tumor radiotherapy. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of segmentation a...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Xu W,Yu S,Ma Y,Liu C,Xin J

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether any patient or hepatic tumor characteristics are predictive of hepatopulmonary shunt fraction when performed before radioembolization. MATERIALS AND METHODS:A retrospective review was performed on 190 patients who underwent preradioembolization hepatic arteriography with calculation of h...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Yerubandi V,Ronald J,Howard BA,Suhocki PV,James OG,Wong TZ,Kim CY

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) has been shown to be useful in inoperable/metastatic medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC). However, the role of concomitant PRRT and low-dose capecitabine therapy has not yet been studied in these patients. This study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy and safety of th...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Satapathy S,Mittal BR,Sood A,Verma R,Panda N

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The first pathogenetic step in multiple myeloma is the emergence of a limited number of clonal plasma cells, clinically known as monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS). Patients with MGUS do not have symptoms or end-organ damage but they do have a 1% annual risk of progression to multiple myeloma...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Giovanella L,Taborelli M,Ceriani L,Zucca E,Cavalli F,Delaloye AB

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To test the potential of a new reconstruction algorithm with Monte Carlo-based scatter correction in half-time myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). MATERIALS AND METHODS:The mathematical four-dimensional NURBS-based Cardiac-Torso phantom and the SIMIND Monte Carlo simulation...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Kangasmaa TS,Kuikka JT,Vanninen EJ,Mussalo HM,Laitinen TP,Sohlberg AO

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic penile scintigraphy was performed using 99Tcm-labelled autologous erythrocytes in five normally potent volunteers and 22 patients with erectile dysfunction including 11 patients with psychogenic and 11 patients with vasculogenic impotence (four arteriogenic, three venogenic, three arteriogenic and venogenic, o...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Siraj QH,Hilson AJ,Bomanji J,Ahmed M

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of the study was to assess the contribution of 111In-pentetreotide single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT) imaging to conventional somatostatin receptor scintigraphy (SRS) in terms of lesion characterization and localization in the detection of neuroendocrine tumours (NETs)...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Sainz-Esteban A,Olmos R,González-Sagrado M,González ML,Ruiz MÁ,García-Talavera P,Gamazo C,Villanueva JG,Cobo A,de Luis D

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To verify the negative predictive value of pulmonary ventilation/perfusion scintigraphy with single photon emission computed tomography (V/Q SPECT) in ruling out pulmonary thromboembolism. METHODS:V/Q SPECT using 99mTc-Technegas was performed on 584 patients to rule out pulmonary thromboembolism between Octo...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Leblanc M,Leveillée F,Turcotte E

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The value of gated single-photon emission computed tomography technetium-99m methoxyisobutylisonitrile (gated SPECT (99m)Tc-MIBI) in children is not yet established probably because gated SPECT (99m)Tc-MIBI has rarely been used in pediatric clinical and research studies. The purpose of this study was to eval...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Sobic-Saranovic DP,Pavlovic SV,Jovanovic IV,Stefanovic ID,Artiko VM,Djukic MM,Obradovic VB

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of low-dose and high-dose (99m)Tc methoxy isobutyl isonitrile (MIBI) protocols in intraoperative localization of parathyroid adenomas by means of a gamma probe in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT). PATIENTS AND METHODS:The study included 62 pat...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Gencoglu EA,Aras M,Moray G,Aktas A

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty patients with aortic valve incompetence and 21 control subjects were examined by M-mode echocardiography at rest and radionuclide ventriculography during submaximal handgrip exercise. The patients had greater left ventricular dimensions and end-systolic wall stress values but peak systolic wall stress values di...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Groundstroem K,Huikuri H,Korhonen U,Ikäheimo M,Heikkilä J,Torniainen P,Linnaluoto M,Takkunen J

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of the kinetics of labelled platelets makes sense only when the platelets preserve their viability after separation and labelling. The separation and labelling procedures described in the manual of two producers of 111In-oxinate (Amersham, Mallinckrodt) have been evaluated by in vitro aggregation tests. The ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Mortelmans L,Verbruggen A,De Roo M,Vermylen J

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of the study was to evaluate the incremental value of technetium-99m-methylene diphosphonate (99mTc-MDP) single-photon emission tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT) over planar bone scintigraphy (BS) and SPECT in the diagnosis of avascular necrosis (AVN) of the femoral head. MATERIALS AND METHOD...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Agarwal KK,Mukherjee A,Sharma P,Bal C,Kumar R

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to compare visual interpretation of inflammation detected by leukocyte scintigraphy with that of different computer-aided quantification methods, 34 patients (25 with ulcerative colitis and 9 with endoscopically verified non-inflamed colonic mucosa), were investigated using 99Tcm-hexamethylpropyleneamine oxim...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Almer S,Peters AM,Ekberg S,Franzén L,Granerus G,Ström M

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of PET/computed tomography (CT) in detecting marrow infiltration in indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) with histopathological correlation. METHODS:All treatment-naive newly diagnosed indolent NHL with staging PET/CT were retrospectively evaluated for marrow infiltration a...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Lee EY,Gill H,Wang Y,Kwong YL,Khong PL

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant reduction of cardiac 123I-meta-iodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) accumulation has been reported in patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease. However, it is unclear whether this reduction in cardiac sympathetic nerve is caused primarily or secondarily to the degeneration of sympathetic nerve centres which oc...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Takatsu H,Wada H,Maekawa N,Takemura M,Saito K,Fujiwara H

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Paediatric dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) studies present a number of technical problems. One of these is that the edge detection algorithms designed for the adult skeleton may fail for paediatric studies. Hologic provide alternative algorithms for low bone density studies. AIM:To assess low-density softwa...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Simpson DE,Dontu VS,Stephens SE,Archbold LJ,Lowe V,O'Doherty MJ,Martin N,Coakley AJ

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (HSVtk) gene has frequently been applied as a reporter gene for monitoring transgene expression in animal models. In clinical gene therapy protocols, however, extremely low expression levels of the transferred gene are generally observed. Consequently, sensitive and s...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Buursma AR,Rutgers V,Hospers GA,Mulder NH,Vaalburg W,de Vries EF

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic value of 2-(fluorine-18)-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose ((18)F-FDG) PET/CT in comparison with MRI for the detection of recurrent ovarian cancer. METHODS:Forty-seven patients with suspected ovarian cancer recurrence after total ablative or cytoreductive surgery, ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Sanli Y,Turkmen C,Bakir B,Iyibozkurt C,Ozel S,Has D,Yilmaz E,Topuz S,Yavuz E,Unal SN,Mudun A

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00