The usefulness of fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose PET in the detection of recurrence in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer with elevated thyroglobulin and negative radioiodine whole-body scan.

abstract：:Fractionation of 99Tcm-exametazime enables several patients doses to be prepared from one vial. To overcome the disadvantages of storage at -70 degrees C, storage at higher temperatures was investigated with replacement of stannous ions before use. Kits were fractionated using a nitrogen-purged 0.9% w/v sodium chlorid...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Baker RJ

更新日期：1999-03-01 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：:This survey investigated the nature of imaging staff and the distribution and structure of nuclear medicine departments in the UK. Total numbers of cameras and average per department were lower than in 1989/90 but higher than the 1992/93 survey. Total whole time equivalents, average per department and average per came...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Sanders L,Houston AS

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to assess the diagnostic and prognostic value of fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (F-FDG) PET/CT in patients with breast cancer (BC) in the preoperative and the postoperative setting. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Between 2011 and 2015, we prospectively enrolled 275 patients (mean age: 53 years)...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Evangelista L,Cervino AR,Michieletto S,Saibene T,Ghiotto C,Guarneri V,Conte P,Reccia P,Saladini G

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In studies of the distribution of lung function, the image quality of lung single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is important and one factor influencing it is the reconstruction algorithm. AIM:To systematically evaluate ordered subsets expectation maximization (OSEM) and compare it with filtere...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Norberg P,Bake B,Jacobsson L,Carlsson GA,Gustafsson A

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:21 patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome were investigated through radionuclide imaging and body surface mapping. Ventricular preexcitation was localized by display of identical phase ventricular regions (phase display). In 79% of the cases radioisotope and body surface mapping methods have identical resu...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Mester J,Préda I,Kozmann G,Máté E,Regös L,Tóth K,Marosi G,Antalóczy Z,Csernay L

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aimed to assess the efficacy of fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (F-FDG)-PET for predicting overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS) in oesophageal cancer patients after definitive chemoradiotherapy (CRT) and prognostic importance of metabolic response detected by post-treatment PET at ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Onal C,Torun N,Guler OC,Yildirim BA

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：OBJECTIVE:The current study was performed to evaluate the impact of Tc-EDDA-tricine-HYNIC-Tyr-octreotate in the differentiation of active from inactive pulmonary tuberculosis lesions. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Ten consecutive patients (six male and four female, age range 24-83 years) with proven pulmonary tuberculosis (wit...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Ahmadihosseini H,Abedi J,Ghodsi Rad MA,Zakavi SR,Knoll P,Mirzaei S,Sadeghi R

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-four patients with symptoms of lower limb arterial insufficiency were examined by radionuclide angiography using 99Tcm in vivo red cell labelling and by contrast aortography. The results of the study indicate that radionuclide angiography may well have a useful role to play in determining the type of contrast st...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Grime JS,Critchley M,Whitehouse GH,Zavras G

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Detection of recurrent disease is essential for treatment planning in patients with paraganglioma. The aim of this study was to compare 123I-metaiodobenzylguanidine (123I-MIBG) scintigraphy [whole-body and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) computed tomography (CT) scanning] and fluorine-18-L...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Rufini V,Treglia G,Castaldi P,Perotti G,Calcagni ML,Corsello SM,Galli G,Fanti S,Giordano A

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Gated blood-pool single-photon emission computed tomography (GBPS) was compared with cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) for the measurement of left ventricular (LV) and right ventricular (RV) ejection fractions (EF) and volumes [end-diastolic volume (EDV) or end-systolic volume (ESV)] in a mixed population. ME...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Sibille L,Bouallegue FB,Bourdon A,Micheau A,Vernhet-Kovacsik H,Mariano-Goulart D

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The determination of lesion boundaries on FDG PET is difficult due to the point-spread blurring and unknown uptake of activity within a lesion. Standard threshold-based methods for volumetric quantification on PET usually neglect any size dependence and are biased by dependence on the signal-to-background ra...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： van Dalen JA,Hoffmann AL,Dicken V,Vogel WV,Wiering B,Ruers TJ,Karssemeijer N,Oyen WJ

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We retrospectively investigated the value of dynamic Tc-diisopropyl-iminodiacetic acid hepatobiliary scintigraphy (HBS) in discriminating postsurgical complications following liver transplantation (LT). METHODS:Dynamic HBS was performed for suspected post-LT complications in 201 cases. Hepatic uptake and exc...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Lee JY,Hu W,Lee KH,Kwon CH,Lee EJ,Choi JY,Kim BT

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant number of patients with primary hyperparathyroidism have negative preoperative 201Tl/99Tcm subtraction localization scans. In this study an attempt was made to improve scan localization by creating a period of relative hypocalcaemia and increased parathyroid hormone (PTH) secretion before scanning. Six p...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Gallacher SJ,Fraser WD,Logue FC,Boyle IT,Gray HW,McKillop JH

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Large cell pulmonary neuroendocrine carcinoma (LCNEC) is a poorly differentiated and high-grade neoplasm. It is positioned between an atypical carcinoid and small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the lung in a distinct family of pulmonary neuroendocrine tumors. The aim of our study was to detect somatostatin ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Nocuń A,Chrapko B,Gołębiewska R,Stefaniak B,Czekajska-Chehab E

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：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：PURPOSE:The regions of significant correlation between cerebral hypoperfusion and neuropsychological assessment scores were evaluated using (99m)Tc-HMPAO SPECT in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) on the basis of its three subtypes, namely, single-domain amnestic MCI (aMCI-s), multiple-domain amnestic MCI (...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Yoon HJ,Park KW,Jeong YJ,Kang DY

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Left ventricular ejection fractions (EF) were measured with a nuclear stethoscope (NSt, beat-to-beat and ECG gated summation method) and contrast ventriculography (VG) immediately following one another (IFOA) (r X 0.96 and 0.95, respectively, n = 13). NSt and ECG gated gamma camera (MUGA) recordings IFOA were compared...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Lund O,Rasmussen K,Jensen FT,Hansen HH

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility of resting myocardial fatty acid metabolic imaging with 123I-beta-methyliodophenyl-pentadecanoic acid (123I-BMIPP) for the detection of patients with stable effort angina pectoris and to clarify the clinical significance of abnormal 123I-BMIPP images. Myocardial imag...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Takeishi Y,Sukekawa H,Saito H,Nishimura S,Shibu T,Sasaki Y,Tomoike H

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper considers the different statistics that can be derived from studies on the value of diagnostic tests. Well-accepted quantities, such as sensitivity and specificity, are reviewed and the value of the likelihood ratio in communicating particular test results is highlighted. A new quantity, the 'diagnostic val...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Lloyd JJ,Talbot PR,Lawson RS

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ICRP has now recommended that the dose limit to the surface of the mother's abdomen during the declared term of pregnancy is reduced to 2 mSv. Direct measurements of the radiation dose to technologists carrying out a variety of imaging studies were made. The average dose ranged from 0.3 micro Sv for a liver scan t...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Clarke EA,Thomson WH,Notghi A,Harding LK

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:INTRODUTION:: [Ga]Ga-prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-11 showed a clear gain in sensitivity for lesion detection in the biological recurrence of prostate cancer as compared to the standard [F]fluorocholine radiopharmaceutical. To meet the strong demand for [Ga]Ga-PSMA-11, we aimed to optimize an automated rad...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Reverchon J,Khayi F,Roger M,Moreau A,Kryza D

更新日期：2020-06-18 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：AIM:99mTc-HL91 is a new hypoxia agent and can identify acutely ischaemic viable myocardium in a canine model using a standard gamma camera. The purpose of the study was to determine whether this tracer could be used to detect regional ischaemia in chronic ischaemic myocardium in a swine model. METHOD:Using a porcine m...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Wu YW,Lee CM,Huang YH,Chou NK,Yen RF,Tzen KY,Huang PJ

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to compare the sensitivity and specificity of morphine-augmented hepatobiliary scintigraphy (MA-HBS) with that of conventional hepatobiliary scintigraphy (C-HBS) for acute cholecystitis. The results of most MA-HBS studies cannot be compared with C-HBS estimates, since articles describing C-HB...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Cabana MD,Alavi A,Berlin JA,Shea JA,Kim CK,Williams SV

更新日期：1995-12-01 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：AIM:The aim of our study was to assess improvements in spatial resolution and noise control from the application of the Astonish resolution recovery algorithm for single photon emission computed tomography imaging. Secondary aims were to compare acquisitions made with low-energy general purpose collimators with those o...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： O'Mahoney E,Murray I

更新日期：2013-03-01 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