Development of a conversion program to make SIMIND-generated SPECT data interfile acceptable to Xeleris.

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：: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：BACKGROUND:99mTc-depreotide (NeoTect) is a synthetic somatostatin analogue, which binds to somatostatin receptor (SSTR) subtypes 2, 3 and 5. Imaging patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) using the somatostatin analogue In-pentetreotide (Octreoscan) has demonstrated the feasibility of identifying lymphoma sites wit...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Bushnell DL,Menda Y,Madsen MT,Link BK,Kahn D,Truhlar SM,Juweid M,Shannon M,Murguia JS

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to evaluate the cerebral amyloid distribution in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), assessed by carbon-11-Pittsburgh compound B (C-PIB) PET/CT, after 5 years of follow-up. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Ten amnestic MCI (A-MCI) and four nonamnestic (NA-MCI) patients were studied b...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Jiménez-Bonilla JF,Quirce R,De Arcocha-Torres M,Martínez-Rodríguez I,Martínez-Amador N,Sánchez-Salmón A,De la Fuente-Gómez F,Rodríguez E,Sánchez-Juan P,Banzo I

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:123I has been promoted for diagnostic imaging as a means of avoiding 'stunning'. It has also been suggested that the more favourable physical characteristics and consequent enhanced imaging resolution provided by 123I offers a more accurate diagnostic assessment of the extent of disease prior to therapy. Thi...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Cohen JB,Kalinyak JE,McDougall IR

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of our study was to explore the value of 3'-deoxy-3'-[F]fluorothymidine (F-FLT) and F-FLT PET in monitoring the early biologic response of esophageal carcinoma after irradiation in vitro and in vivo. METHODS:After 2, 4, and 8 h of irradiation at different doses (0, 5, 10, and 15 Gy) of esophageal car...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Jiang M,Huang Q,Chen P,Ruan X,Luo Z,Zhao L,Fan W,Peng T,Sun L,Wu H

更新日期：2014-12-01 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：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：BACKGROUND:The new anti-cancer drug imatinib mesylate inhibits the tyrosine kinase growth factor receptor, c-KIT, and has shown spectacular activity in patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs). OBJECTIVE:To assess whether fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG PET) is suitable for response ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Jager PL,Gietema JA,van der Graaf WT

更新日期：2004-05-01 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：:The presence of distant metastases is the main prognostic factor in patients with breast cancer and has a significant influence in the choice of therapy. Therefore, chest X-ray, bone scintigraphy and ultrasound of the abdomen are performed to detect distant metastases at diagnosis and follow-up. Fluorodeoxyglucose pos...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Dose J,Bleckmann C,Bachmann S,Bohuslavizki KH,Berger J,Jenicke L,Habermann CR,Jãnicke F

更新日期：2002-09-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Radionuclide therapies, including treatment of neuroendocrine tumors with lutetium-177 (Lu-177) octreotate, often involve hospital admission to minimize radiation exposure to the public. Overnight admission due to Lu-177 octreotate therapy incurs additional cost for the hospital and is an inconvenience for t...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Olmstead C,Cruz K,Stodilka R,Zabel P,Wolfson R

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In busy nuclear medicine departments, the F+0 protocol for diuretic renography is routinely used to shorten the acquisition time. The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of the F+0 protocol on the split renal function (SRF) during a dynamic renal scan using technetium-99m diethylene triamine pentaacetic ac...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Kandeel AA,Elhossainy SA,Elsayed ND

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM AND PURPOSE:Radionuclide imaging of the kidneys using dimercaptosuccinic acid chelate labeled with technetium-99m (Tc-DMSA) is a well-established method for evaluating the extent of kidney parenchymal involvement in the scenario of urinary tract infection and for the estimation of the functional renal mass. We have...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Gorenberg M,Radan L,Kosakov R,Amirav I

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The requirements, problems and progress of radioimmunotherapy in the management of certain malignancies are described. The future prospects using a two- or three-stage approach are promising. ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Britton KE,Mather SJ,Granowska M

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Split and total renal function are commonly assessed from time-activity curves obtained from gamma camera renography with 99Tcm-diethylenetriamine pentaacetate (99Tcm-DTPA) and 99Tcm-mercaptoacetyl-triglycine (99Tcm-MAG3). The impact of the statistical noise associated with these curves on the total precision in split...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Moonen M,Jacobsson L

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to compare six methods of measuring the left ventricular (LV) transient ischaemic dilation (TID) ratio during stress-rest myocardial perfusion single-photon emission tomography (SPET). The TID ratio was defined as the mean LV short-axis area at stress divided by the mean LV area of simila...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Peace RA,McKiddie FI,Staff RT,Gemmell HG

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Measurement errors occurring during glomerular filtration rate (GFR) studies propagate to an error in the calculated GFR. Previous work has modelled measurement errors for slope-intercept (SI-GFR), single-sample (SS-GFR) and slope-only (SO-GFR) methods. In this study, we have extended these models. The prima...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Holness JL,Fleming JS,Chirehwa MT,Warwick JM

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are rare in childhood. Neuroblastoma is the most common pediatric extracranial solid tumor, occurring >90% in children younger than 5 years of age. Pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma are rare NETs, causing hypertension in 0.5-2% of hypertensive children. Gastroenteropancreatic NETs can occ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Haddad T,Fard-Esfahani A,Vali R

更新日期：2021-01-01 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：BACKGROUND AND AIM:To evaluate the diagnostic value of integrated 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography and computed tomography (PET/CT) to discriminate malignant from benign ovarian tumors. METHODS:One hundred and eight women suspected of having ovarian cancer underwent preoperative FDG-PET/CT sca...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Kitajima K,Suzuki K,Senda M,Kita M,Nakamoto Y,Onishi Y,Maeda T,Yoshikawa T,Ohno Y,Sugimura K

更新日期：2011-07-01 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

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：:Liver metastasis is a common consequence of colorectal carcinoma. Early and accurate detection of liver metastasis is crucial for a decision about partial hepatectomy, which is considered a standard and potentially curative therapy in such a setting. The presence of extrahepatic metastases will exclude surgical resect...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Zhuang H,Sinha P,Pourdehnad M,Duarte PS,Yamamoto AJ,Alavi A

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The clearance rate of inhaled 99mTc-sestamibi from the lungs of healthy nonsmoking individuals is much slower than would be expected from its physical properties. The clearance rate is even slower in healthy cigarette smokers. As 99mTc-sestamibi is a substrate for P-glycoprotein (P-gp), pulmonary P-gp may be ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Cheow HK,Ruparelia P,Shankar S,Szczepura KR,Ballinger JR,Hartman NG,Chilvers ER,Peters AM

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A lack of response to cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) has been reported in 20-40% of heart failure patients with left ventricular (LV) dyssynchrony who underwent treatment based on the established guidelines. The study aimed to investigate the relationship between (99m)Tc-tetrofosmin ((99m)Tc-TF) myoc...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Shigeru M,Fujiwara S,Takamine S,Yoshida A,Kawai H,Shiotani H,Hirata K

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of this study were (1) to compare N-isopropyl-p-[I-123]-iodoamphetamine (123I-IMP) SPET with computed tomography (CT) in chronic-stage head trauma patients with neurological abnormalities and (2) to quantify regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in patients with chronic-stage head trauma. 123I-IMP SPET and CT w...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Nagamachi S,Nishikawa T,Ono S,Kawasaki K,Eguchi G,Hoshi H,Jinnouchi S,Ohnishi T,Futami S,Watanabe K

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:N staging is a key factor when considering the choice of treatment for non-small-lung cancer. It is possible that there is a correlation between N2 metastasis and some risk factors. The objective of the present study was to evaluate associations between several risk factors and N(2) metastasis using univaria...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Su M,Li Y,Li F,Li L,Tian R

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Radioiodine ablation of thyroid tissue remains the cornerstone of treatment for patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma after thyroidectomy. Selecting an optimal dose of radioiodine for successful ablation is a continuous challenge in these patients. METHODS:We compared the treatment response of 341 ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Fallahi B,Beiki D,Takavar A,Fard-Esfahani A,Gilani KA,Saghari M,Eftekhari M

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00