The management of differentiated thyroid cancer using 123I for imaging to assess the need for 131I therapy.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to investigate the prognostic value of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and its relationship with several metabolic parameters obtained through PET in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) submitted to radioembolization with Y-microspheres (Y-radioembolization). METHODS:Records ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Filippi L,Di Costanzo GG,Tortora R,Pelle G,Saltarelli A,Marino Marsilia G,Cianni R,Schillaci O,Bagni O

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of the study was to evaluate the effects of tumour dose on tumour response and overall survival (OS) in patients with chemo-refractory metastatic breast cancer (MBC) to the liver undergoing yttrium-90 radioembolisation (Y90 RE). MATERIALS AND METHODS:In 20 consecutive patients with chemo-refractory MBC...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Cheng B,Sethi I,Davisson N,Brandon D,Barron B,Galt J,Bercu Z,Schuster DM,Kokabi N

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to analyze the uptake of rubidium in malignant tumors. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS:Sixteen malignant lesions were included. Two radiologists compared each lesion to four references (subcutaneous fat, lung, mediastinal blood pool, and liver) at rest and stress and scored as 1-4. M...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Khandani AH,Commander CW,Desai H,Oldan JD,Wong TZ,Benefield T,Ivanovic M

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To (a) assess the accuracy of 18F-FDG PET/CT in distinguishing malignant from benign pelvic lesions, compared to transvaginal ultrasonography (TVUS) and (b) to establish the role of whole-body 18F-FDG PET/CT, compared to contrast enhanced computed tomography (CT), in staging patients with ovarian cancer. PATIENTS...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Castellucci P,Perrone AM,Picchio M,Ghi T,Farsad M,Nanni C,Messa C,Meriggiola MC,Pelusi G,Al-Nahhas A,Rubello D,Fazio F,Fanti S

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate whether the number of fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-avid focal lesions and the presence of extramedullary disease (EMD) on F-FDG PET/computed tomography (PET/CT) can predict the outcomes of newly diagnosed symptomatic multiple myeloma patients. METHODS:We performed a meta-analysis to research the pro...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Zhong X,Diao W,Zhao C,Jia Z

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:First pass radionuclide angiocardiography (FPRNA) has gained increasing interest because of the development of new 99Tcm-labelled perfusion agents and of new 191Os/191Irm generator systems. The aim of the study was to evaluate the performance capacities of a small field of view single crystal digital gamma camera for ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Dobbeleir A,Franken PR,Ham HR,Brihaye C,Guillaume M,Knapp FF,Vandevivere J

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the prevalence of malignancy in incidental thyroidal uptake on PET with fluorine-18 deoxyglucose integrated with computed tomography (F-FDG PET/CT) in Pakistani cancer patients and to assess the role of standardized uptake value (SUV) in deciding which lesions to investigate further. METHOD:We re...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Hassan A,Riaz S,Zafar W

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Captopril renography is used for the non-invasive diagnosis of renovascular hypertension, but suffers from the drawbacks of lower sensitivity and false-positive tests due to a fall in blood pressure. Aspirin renography has been proposed as a useful test for evaluation of unilateral renal artery stenoses of moderate de...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Maini A,Gambhir S,Singhal M,Kher V

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) arises from parafollicular C cells and is an elusive tumor to image. It occurs as a sporadic neoplasm in 70-80% of cases and is hereditary in 20-30% because of germline mutations of the rearranged during transfection proto-oncogene. Successful disease management relies on accurate stagin...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Wong KK,Laird AM,Moubayed A,Chondrogiannis S,Marzola MC,Evangelista L,Gross MD,Rubello D

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Foot problems are common causes of disability in diabetic patients with as many as 25% expected to develop severe foot or leg problems during their lifetimes. Although skin ulceration is the most frequent problem, bones may also be involved in two different clinical conditions: osteomyelitis and Charcot osteoarthropat...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Giurato L,Uccioli L

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparisons of gastric emptying between different centres are difficult because of wide variations in methods. Reproducibility of a method is very important before it is used to compare different subjects or to assess the effect of treatment. The aim of this study was to measure the reproducibility of gastric emptying...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Kong MF,Perkins AC,King P,Blackshaw PE,Macdonald IA

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:ECG-gated single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) myocardial perfusion scintigraphy combined with phase analysis allows for the assessment of left ventricular dyssynchrony. However, there are several software programs available thereby introducing variability in outcome and normal values. The aim ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Marques de Souza Filho E,Tinoco Mesquita C,Altenburg Gismondi R,de Amorim Fernandes F,Jan Verberne H

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:As PET has become a standard of treatment in patients with cancer, publications of oncologic PET have grown sharply. We aimed to organize the data of meta-analyses of oncologic PET and assess the quality of studies. MATERIALS AND METHODS:The inclusion criteria were studies that meta-analyzed to combine the ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Pak K,Shin S,Kim SJ,Kim K,Seo Y,Kim SJ,Kim IJ

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The administration of radionuclide therapies presents significant radiation protection challenges. The aim of this work was to develop a delivery system for intravenous radioisotope therapies to substantially moderate radiation exposures to staff and operators. A novel device (InfuShield) was designed and tested befor...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Rushforth DP,Pratt BE,Chittenden SJ,Murray IS,Causer L,Grey MJ,Gear JI,Du Y,Flux GD

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Micturating renograms often need to be carried out on children, with whom difficulty may be experienced in synchronizing onset of micturition with camera and computer acquisition. A flow detection system has been developed which will automate these acquisitions, resulting in far fewer false starts or lost studies. The...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Burniston MT,Royall RA,Tapper RC

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSES:This study aims to explore the prognostic value of left ventricular mechanical dyssynchrony (LVMD) in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) patients with low risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD). METHODS:This retrospective study was performed in 50 patients with HCM who underwent Tc-99m sestamibi GSPECT-MPI. All pa...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Jiang W,Liu Y,He Z,Zhou Y,Wang C,Jiang Z,Zhou W

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Single photon emission tomography (SPECT) of the lung is a well-established non-invasive technique for quantitative assessment of regional lung ventilation and perfusion distribution in children and in adults. However, its application in neonates as well as infants has been scarce because of several practica...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Sánchez-Crespo A,Rohdin M,Carlsson C,Bergström SE,Larsson SA,Jacobsson H,Lindahl S,Jonsson B

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The method described by Weisner et al. for stabilizing 99Tcm-hexamethylpropylene amine oxime (99Tcm-HMPAO) with cobalt chloride hexahydrate solution is the most promising developed to date. The aim of our work was to study the behaviour of cobalt during the labelling of leukocytes with 99Tcm-HMPAO stabilized in vitro ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Prangere T,Bowden AD,Beauchat V,Caulier MT,Ziegels P,Huglo D,Pickett RD,Steinling M

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assessment and appropriate clinical management of patients with acute chest pain and non-diagnostic electrocardiograms remain a continuing clinical problem. Accordingly, there is considerable interest in evaluating new strategies to improve early diagnostic accuracy in patients with possible acute myocardial ischa...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Anand DV,Lahiri A

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the diagnostic value of function volume/morphological volume ratio calculated from ventilation/perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography in distinguishing the lungs with bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) from the lungs without this syndrome after lung transplan...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Nakashima M,Shinya T,Oto T,Okawa T,Takeda Y

更新日期：2019-07-01 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：:Although several hypotheses have been suggested regarding the accumulation of 99Tc(m)-sestamibi in tumours, the exact uptake mechanism is still a matter of discussion. We investigated ultrastructural cell type of thyroid tumours by electron microscopy (EM) and compared them with uptake of 99Tc(m)-sestamibi. Thyroid sc...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Sarikaya A,Huseyinova G,Irfanoğlu ME,Erkmen N,Cermik TF,Berkarda S

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Radioiodine ablation may be associated with improved survival in patients with intermediate-risk follicular cell differentiated thyroid cancer (FCDTC). The aim of this study was to compare ablation efficacy of 1110 versus 5500 MBq of iodine-131 (I) in FCDTC patients with intermediate risk. METHODS:Thirty-ni...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Aghaei A,Ayati N,Shafiei S,Abbasi B,Zakavi SR

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to investigate the diagnostic value of occipital lobe and posterior cingulate perfusion in predicting dopamine transporter imaging outcome using a quantitative measure of analysis. PATIENTS AND METHODS:In total, 99 patients with cognitive complaints who had undergone both technetium...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Prosser AMJ,Tossici-Bolt L,Kipps CM

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This radiotherapy planning study evaluated tumour delineation using both optimally respiratory gated and nongated fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose-PET (F-FDG-PET). METHODS:For 22 non-small-cell lung tumours, both scans were used to create the nongated and gated (g) gross tumour volumes (GTVg) together with the...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Wijsman R,Grootjans W,Troost EG,van der Heijden EH,Visser EP,de Geus-Oei LF,Bussink J

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Technetium-99m (99Tcm)(V) dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) is a new tumour imaging agent which has been used to evaluate squamous carcinoma (SCC) of the head and neck. This study evaluated the pharmacokinetics and biodistribution of 99Tcm(V)DMSA in patients with SCC and calculated the bone mass of a New Zealand White (N...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Watkinson JC,Allen S,Lazarus CR,Sinclair J,Blake GM,Clarke SE

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to investigate myocardial findings of F-fluorodeoxyglucose PET/computed tomography (F-FDG PET/CT) after thoracic radiotherapy. METHODS:F-Fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT examination was performed in 38 patients at least 4 months after radiotherapy. Patients with known cardiac diseases,...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Unal K,Unlu M,Akdemir O,Akmansu M

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Scintimammography using (99m)Tc-labelled isonitriles, sestamibi and tetrofosmin, has become a mature technique in the adjunctive setting for the diagnosis of primary breast cancer. To establish an evidence base for its use, clinically, a meta-analysis was performed on both single-site and multi-centre trials...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Hussain R,Buscombe JR

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LL1, a monoclonal antibody (MAb) to HLA Class-II-like antigen (li determinant) on the surface of B-lymphocytes, monocytes and histiocytes, was evaluated as an agent for bone marrow imaging. Six patients with diverse diseases (non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, n = 2; multiple myeloma, n = 1; polycythaemia vera, n = 1; lung cance...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Juweid M,Dunn RM,Sharkey RM,Rubin AD,Hansen HJ,Goldenberg DM

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In-vivo quantitative cerebral blood flow (CBF) measurement using positron emission tomography (PET) has typically employed invasive arterial blood sampling procedure to determine the arterial input function (AIF). The present study was performed to provide a non-invasive quantitative CBF measurement technique...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Yee SH,Jerabek PA,Fox PT

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00