Scintigraphic assessments of the reparative process in osteonecrosis of the femoral head using SPECT/CT with 99mTc hydroxymethylene diphosphonate.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the ability of Ga DOTA-NOC PET/computed tomography (CT) to differentiate dural metastases from meningioma. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Patients who underwent a Ga DOTA-NOC PET/CT for differentiating meningiomas from dural metastases were included in the study. A visual score was assigned to the dural lesi...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Purandare NC,Puranik A,Shah S,Agrawal A,Gupta T,Moiyadi A,Shetty P,Shridhar E,Patil V,Rangarajan V

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early diagnosis in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is important for the administration of new treatments. The purpose of this study was to differentiate mildly/moderately demented AD patients from normal controls by means of activational brain SPECT, and to investigate the correlation between regional cerebral blood flow and...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Sayit E,Yener G,Capa G,Ertay T,Keskin B,Fadiloglu S,Durak H

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Maximum standardized uptake value (SUV(max)) is a marker of tumor glucose metabolism detected by [(18)F]-fluorodeoxyglucose ((18)F-FDG) PET/computed tomography (PET/CT) and reflects tumor aggressiveness. The aim of the study was to evaluate the value of SUV(max) in differentiating benign from malignant solit...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Hu SL,Yang ZY,Zhou ZR,Yu XJ,Ping B,Zhang YJ

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this study was to design a general nuclear medicine method for fast, accurate and direct determination of the clearance of a radioactive indicator provided that all uptake compartments of the radioactive indicator could be included in the field of view of the gamma camera. METHODS:The data material for ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Carlsen O

更新日期：2004-10-01 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：OBJECTIVE:The staging and management of patients with newly diagnosed nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in the setting of recently diagnosed other (metachronous or synchronous) primary cancer are challenging. This retrospective cohort study was carried out to test our hypothesis that baseline 2-deoxy-2-[F]fluoro-D-gluc...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Zhu X,Liao C,Penney BC,Li F,Ferguson MK,Simon CA,Wu T,Liu H,Pu Y

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Differential renal function (DRF) calculation with 99mTc-diethylenetriamine-pentaacetic acid (DTPA) or mercaptoacetyltriglycine (MAG3) is gaining clinical importance in the evaluation of patients with ureteropelvic junction obstruction with hydronephrosis (HN). Although many decisions regarding surgery are b...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Caglar M,Gedik GK,Karabulut E

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The radiation dose to the pulp of both index fingers has been measured in a radiopharmacy supplying 11 000 patient doses a year, in a hospital dispensary (4500 doses a year) and in its injection area. Tungsten syringe shields were used for one week and not used during the other week. In the radiopharmacy and the dispe...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Harding LK,Hesslewood S,Ghose SK,Thomson WH

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alveolar permeability (AP) in 21 patients with active diffuse infiltrative lung disease (ILD) was measured by 99Tcm-diethylenetriaminapentaacetate (DTPA) radioaerosol inhalation lung scintigraphy. The degree of AP damage in ILD was presented as the slope (% min-1) of the time-activity curve from the dynamic lung i...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Kao CH,Lin HT,Yu SL,Wang SJ,Yeh SH

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements were made of the concentration of radioactivity in the breast milk of two patients: one following 100 MBq (2.7 mCi) 99Tcm-pertechnetate administration, and the other following administration of 550 MBq (15 mCi) 99Tcm-glucoheptonate. The fractional activity concentrations in the former case were about two ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Mountford PJ,Coakley AJ

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging using [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) is recognized to have a major role in oncological imaging. Over recent years there has been a steady increase in the use of gamma camera PET (GCPET) systems as these are less expensive than dedicated PET scanners and facilitat...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Marshall C,Mustafa S,Wheatley DC,Eremin JE,El-Sheemy M,Jibril JA,Eremin O,Griffiths PA

更新日期：2004-07-01 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：:The biodistribution of two stereoisomeric 99Tcm complexes derived from diastereomeric dimercaptosuccinic acids (DMSA), 99Tcm-dl-DMSA and 99Tcm-meso-DMSA, was examined in sarcoma 180 tumour-bearing mice. The biodistribution pattern of meso-complex was not significantly different from 99Tc(V)m-DMSA, a new tumour imaging...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Awh OD,Kim JR,Shim SC

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to show the viability and performance of a shape-based pattern recognition technique applied to I-N-omega-fluoropropyl-2-beta-carbomethoxy-3beta-(4-iodophenyl) nortropane single-photon emission computed tomography (FP-CIT SPECT) in patients with parkinsonism. METHODS:A fully autom...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Staff RT,Ahearn TS,Wilson K,Counsell CE,Taylor K,Caslake R,Davidson JE,Gemmell HG,Murray AD

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ion-exchange resin beads, implanted into connective tissue, were used as the vehicle for the delivery of radiolabelled cations to determine the local distribution of lead, silver and cadmium in loose connective tissue. The system was devoid of systemic toxicity, permitted a predictable release, enabled location of rel...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Ellender G,Ham KN

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biodistribution of 131I-6 beta-iodomethyl-19-norcholesterol (NP-59) was assessed in hypercholesterolaemic patients and in a rabbit model of HC to examine the alterations in the relative distribution of NP-59 and its metabolites and to explain the changes in the patterns of adrenal cortical imaging in patients with...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Lynn MD,Gross MD,Shapiro B,Bassett D

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Despite the growing use of fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (F-FDG) PET texture analysis to measure intratumoural heterogeneity in cancer research, the biologic basis of F-FDG PET-derived texture variables is poorly understood. We aimed to assess correlations between F-FDG PET-derived texture variables and whole-...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Bashir U,Foot O,Wise O,Siddique MM,Mclean E,Bille A,Goh V,Cook GJ

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to evaluate pulmonary nodules (PNs) by incorporating time sensitivity (S) factor in the retention index (RI) and compare with the traditional fixed interval method. After obtaining approval from the Human Investigations Committee, 97 PNs from 81 patients (age=70±11) referred for dual-time fluo...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Wong CY,Al-faham Z,Jolepalem P,Wong WW,Thie J

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Right ventricular performance was assessed in 37 patients with acute myocardial infarction within two hours of admission to Coronary Care and compared to results in 21 normal volunteers and 12 patients undergoing coronary arteriography. Right ventricular ejection fraction (RVEF) was measured from gated xenon-133 scans...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Martin W,Tweddel A,McGhie I,Hutton I

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：:We performed a prospective study to establish the optimal background correction algorithm for the determination of differential renal function (DRF), using 99Tc(m)-diethylenetriamine pentaacetate (99Tc(m)-DTPA) in the presence of unilateral hydronephrosis, with 24 h 99Tc(m)-dimercaptosuccinic acid (99Tc(m)-DMSA) uptak...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Van de Wiele C,De Sadeleer C,Koole M,D'Asseler Y,Everaert K,Dierckx RA

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The NHS National PET-CT Audit Programme was launched in 2008 as part of a national NHS programme to widen patient access to PET-computed tomography (CT) imaging in England. However, to implement clinical audit effectively, healthcare professionals need to be fully engaged with the process. The purpose of the pi...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Ross P,Hubert J,Saunders M,Wong WL

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single kidney clearance can be obtained using the 99Tcm-DTPA complex and the scintillation camera. In order to evaluate the influence of statistical noise on the determination of the clearance, several non-noisy curves were constructed, simulating renal, background and precordial curves. Poisson noise was added to the...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Piepsz A,Dobbeleir A,Ham HR

更新日期：1985-08-01 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：:Published values of tissue weighting factors for adolescents and children derived from the life-span study of the atomic bomb survivors have been used to calculate the effective dose to patients aged 1, 5, 10 and 15 years undergoing a common paediatric procedure requiring one of the following radiopharmaceuticals: 99T...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Gadd R,Mountford PJ,Oxtoby JW

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The indication for sentinel node biopsy (SNB) has not been fully established yet for patients with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). AIM:To relate the conversion rate to invasive carcinoma with sentinel node positivity in high risk DCIS, and to refine the clinical presentation analysis in order to better sel...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Fraile M,Gubern JM,Rull M,Julián FJ,Serra C,Llatjós M,Culell P,Puig P,Solà M,Vallejos V,Mariscal A,Janer J,Deulofeu P,Fusté F

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed in vitro aggregation and indium-111 labeled platelet kinetic and biodistribution studies in seven patients with diabetes mellitus and in five control subjects. All subjects were male. All diabetic patients were poorly controlled at the time of study with blood glucose greater than 140 mg % and hemoglobin ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Luikens B,Forstrom LA,Johnson T,Johnson G

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Upon diagnosis, distant metastases are encountered in 21-50% of neuroendocrine tumours (NETs). However, few systemic treatment options are available for the well-differentiated NETs in the metastatic stage. Lu-DOTATATE is one of the most effective treatments in this limited patient group. We retrospectively inv...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Demirci E,Kabasakal L,Toklu T,Ocak M,Şahin OE,Alan-Selcuk N,Araman A

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Our objective was to analyze the clinical management and the outcome of disease in differentiated thyroid carcinoma with initial and late distant metastases (M1). PATIENTS AND METHODS:Radioiodine (131I) therapy was applied in 77 differentiated thyroid carcinoma patients with M1 (31 patients with M1-initial a...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Mihailovic JM,Stefanovic LJ,Malesevic MD,Erak MD,Tesanovic DD

更新日期：2009-07-01 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