Preliminary clinical investigation of 99mTc-methoxyisobutylisonitrile washout rate in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Patients with normal stress perfusion have an excellent prognosis. Prospective studies on the diagnostic accuracy of stress-only scans with contemporary, independent examinations as gold standards are lacking. PATIENTS AND METHODS:A total of 109 patients with typical angina and no previous coronary artery di...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Ejlersen JA,May O,Mortensen J,Nielsen GL,Lauridsen JF,Allan J

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In our study, tumor heterogeneity was evaluated using the parameters skewness and kurtosis on pretreatment Ga-68 DOTA-TATE PET/CT to assess therapy responses of lesions in patients with gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP NETs) treated with peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT). METHOD:We ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Önner H,Abdülrezzak Ü,Tutuş A

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Providing information to patients and staff is an important part of the practice of nuclear medicine. To assist in improving the standard of communications, guidance has been prepared covering the content, style and presentation of letters and leaflets for patients and for medical and nursing staff. Examples are provi...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Clarke SE,McKillop JH,Prescott MC,Williams ED

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-isopropyl-p-I-123-iodoamphetamine (123I-IMP) is extracted by the brain in proportion to regional blood flow. It is particularly useful in the clinical assessment of various pathological conditions related to altered cerebral flow. Moreover, it has been reported that 123I-IMP is avidly incorporated into melanin and m...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Watanabe N,Seto H,Yokoyama K,Matsuda H,Shimizu M,Tonami N,Hisada K,Kakishita M

更新日期：1996-02-01 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：:An accurate evaluation of the absorbed dose to the bladder wall from 2-[(18)F]fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose (FDG) is clinically important because the bladder is considered as a critical organ in most positron emission tomography (PET) studies that cumulate about 20% of the total activity injection during image procedures. ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Wu TH,Liu RS,Dong SL,Chung YW,Chou KL,Lee JS

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The time course of thyroglobulin (Tg) was monitored in patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma after ablative therapy (thyroidectomy + 131I-treatment) with particular respect to endogeneous antibodies (Tg-ABs). In 232 patients (196 without Tg-ABs, 36 with Tg-ABs at the time of treatment) a sensitivity of 88% (a...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Moser E,Braun S,Kirsch CM,Kleinhans E,Buell U

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To prevent salivary dysfunction in thyroid cancer patients who have undergone radioiodine ablation, massaging the parotid gland (PG) is presumed to be helpful for the removal of radioiodine. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of PG massage in the removal of radioiodine from the PG. METHODS...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Hong CM,Son SH,Kim CY,Kim DH,Jeong SY,Lee SW,Lee J,Ahn BC

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The aims of this study were to improve the quantification of lower extremity lymphoscintigraphy, determine its value and lower limit of normal, and determine whether intermediate postinjection time imaging is necessary. PATIENTS AND METHODS:This was a study of 102 consecutive patients undergoing routine lower ext...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Keramida G,Winterman N,Wroe E,Aplin M,Peters AM

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is possible to obtain an estimate of the bone uptake of diphosphonates after 3 h (BU) on the basis of the difference between the dose administered and the sum of the component eliminated in the urine plus the component present in the extra-osseous volume of distribution. The results of this simple method have been ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Galli G,Bagnato A,Galli M

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study were to measure semi-quantitatively uptake of 99Tcm-sestamibi (99Tcm-MIBI) by tumour tissue in patients with lung cancer and to investigate its relationship with clinical response to chemotherapy. 99Tcm-MIBI single photon emission tomography was performed at the time of diagnosis in 31 pat...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Ceriani L,Giovanella L,Bandera M,Beghe B,Ortelli M,Roncari G

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a lack of systematic nephrographic studies on epidemic nephritis (EN). We studied 10 patients with EN using [99Tcm]MAG3 gamma camera nephrography and followed up 9 of them 22-68 days later when they had clinically recovered. Variables for renal clearance of [99Tcm]MAG3 and the retention of radioactivity in th...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Paul R,Kiiliäinen H,Tarssanen L,Vorne M

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：: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：INTRODUCTION:In the present study, (99m)Tc-radiolabelled E-selectin binding peptide ((99m)Tc-IMP-178) was investigated for its potential to image acute pyogenic osteomyelitis in a new animal model. Intraindividual comparisons were performed using an irrelevant peptide ((99m)Tc-IMP-100) to demonstrate specificity. METH...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Gratz S,Béhé M,Boerman OC,Kunze E,Schulz H,Eiffert H,O'Reilly T,Behr TM,Angerstein C,Nebendahl K,Kauer F,Becker W

更新日期：2001-09-01 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：OBJECTIVE:The recent development of mixed ligand complexes using a 99mTc tricarbonyl synthon has prompted us to revisit the first generation product, 99mTc-t-butyl isonitrile (TBI), for possible myocardial imaging after modification of the 99mTc core to a mixed ligand core of carbonyl and t-butyl isonitrile. The easy a...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Kothari KK,Satpati D,Joshi S,Venkatesh M,Ramamoorthy N,Pillai MR

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An existing technique for the presentation of oesophageal transit studies has been further developed and applied to conventional radionuclide data. The spatial and temporal information contained in the original dynamic study is compressed to a single image, showing the linear distribution of activity down the oesophag...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Gibson CJ,Bateson MC

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In this study, we evaluated and compared the level of myocardial ischaemia caused by cardiac syndrome X (CSX) and coronary slow flow (CSF) with single photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging (SPECT-MPI), and determined if changes in the level of myocardial ischaemia exist in CSF and ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Özde C,Aktüre G,Aytekin S,Sayin AE,Ay EK,Coçkun G,Kaya A,Kayapinar O

更新日期：2019-11-01 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：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：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

abstract：:Quantification of the number of receptors per cell (NRPC) is important when assessing whether a tumor surface biomarker is suitable for medical imaging. One common method for NPRC quantification is to use a binding saturation assay, which is time consuming and requires large amounts of reagents. The aim of this study ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Barta P,Björkelund H,Andersson K

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is a neuroendocrine tumour characterized by the production and secretion of calcitonin. MTC tumours may express functional somatostatin receptors (hSSTR). A significant proportion of hSSTR receptor-positive MTC tumours, including metastatic disease, may be visualized in vivo through 1...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： O'Byrne KJ,O'Hare N,Sweeney E,Freyne PJ,Cullen MJ

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorine-18-sodium fluoride (F-NaF) PET/CT is a relatively new and high-resolution bone imaging modality. Since the use of F-NaF PET/CT has been increasing, it is important to accurately assess the images and be aware of normal distribution and major artifacts. In this pictorial review article, we will describe the no...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Sarikaya I,Elgazzar AH,Sarikaya A,Alfeeli M

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis patients require pancreatic enzyme supplements to aid food digestion. It is suspected that incorrect delivery of this enzyme may result in both significant malabsorption and the development of strictures in the proximal colon caused by the high-dose supplement reaching this region before the food. Inve...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Hillel PG,Tindale WB,Taylor CJ,Frier M,Senior S,Ghosal S

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the incidence, severity and clinical course of right ventricular (RV) involvement after acute inferior myocardial infarction (IMI), 78 patients (pts) with IMI were investigated by both 99Tcm-pyrophosphate (PYP) scan and gated blood pool scan (GBPS). GBPS was performed at admission and 10 days, whereas 99Tc...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Nishimura T,Yasuda T,Gold HK,Leinbach RC,Boucher CA,McKusick KA,Strauss HW

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:(68)Ga-Dotatoc has become the PET radiopharmaceutical of choice for the diagnosis and treatment follow-up of neuroendocrine tumours. (68)Ga-Dotatoc is prepared on-site through a so-called magisterial preparation. The use of an appropriate buffer during the radiolabelling step is essential to maximize the lab...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Bauwens M,Chekol R,Vanbilloen H,Bormans G,Verbruggen A

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to develop a quantitative method to assess viable tumour based on post-operative 201Tl single photon emission tomography (SPET). We studied 15 patients with histologically defined highly malignant gliomas in the post-operative phase before initiation of adjuvant treatment. A 201Tl index was c...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Källén K,Geijer B,Andersson AM,Holtås S,Ryding E,Rosén I

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally accepted that the quality of myocardial images deteriorates with increasing patient weight. This is attributed to a reduction of counts detected from the myocardium. In this paper we have looked at the count reduction in obese patients and suggest a workable algorithm to increase the injected activity ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Notghi A,Williams N,Smith N,Goyle S,Harding LK

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00