Importance of accurate ilio-inguinal quantification in lower extremity lymphoscintigraphy.

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：INTRODUCTION:Gated myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (g-MPS) provides functional information on the left ventricle (LV) apart from the perfusion status. Computer algorithm-based LV ejection fraction (EF) calculated from resting g-MPS has been found to be reliable in patients with normal perfusion. However, its role in ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Harisankar CN,Mittal BR,Kamaleshwaran KK,Parmar M,Bhattacharya A,Singh B,Mahajan R

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Extraskeletal findings detected on whole-body low-dose unenhanced computed tomography (CT) as a part of F-NaF PET/CT scans can be numerous and present challenges for further management. Here, we investigate the frequency and clinical significance of extraskeletal findings among 130 consecutive patients undergoi...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Guo HH,Moradi F,Iagaru A

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We investigated the role of Ga-68 DOTATATE PET/CT in comparison to F-18 FDG PET/CT in patients with low and intermediate versus high-grade neuroendocrine tumors (NETs). METHODS:We identified 81 patients who underwent Ga-68 DOTATATE PET/CT at our institution between May 2017 and December 2018 and met inclusio...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： You H,Kandathil A,Beg M,De Blanche L,Kazmi S,Subramaniam RM

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The objective of this study was to assess the relevance of physiological (68)Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT findings in the pancreas guided by morphological imaging (MI) in comparison with pathological tumour uptake in patients with neuroendocrine tumours (NETs). METHODS:A total of 138 patients with pancreatic NET (pNET; n=38...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Mapelli P,Tam HH,Sharma R,Aboagye EO,Al-Nahhas A

更新日期：2014-06-01 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：PURPOSE:Respiratory gated perfusion single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) was applied to reduce respiratory lung motion effects and to reliably assess perfusion impairment in various lung diseases. METHODS:After injection of 259 MBq of 99mTc macroaggretated albumin (99mTc-MAA), gating was performed using ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Suga K,Kawakami Y,Zaki M,Yamashita T,Matsumoto T,Matsunaga N

更新日期：2004-02-01 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

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：:The carbon urea breath test ((14)C-UBT) is a noninvasive technique used to detect Helicobacter pylori infection in patients presenting with dyspeptic symptoms. The present study was undertaken to determine the efficacy of indigenously produced (14)C-UBT capsules by the Board of Radiation and Isotope Technology, India....

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Tiwari BP,Nistala S,Patil SP,Kalgutkar DP,Jaychandran N,Chander H,Basu S

更新日期：2014-03-01 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：OBJECTIVE:The aim was to investigate the diagnostic potential of dual-time-point F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (F-FDG PET/CT) in patients with breast cancer with known or suspected liver metastases and to assess its clinical value on clinical management. PATIENTS AND METHODS:A t...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Annovazzi A,Rea S,Vici P,Fabi A,Sciuto R

更新日期：2018-12-01 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：: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：:A patient satisfaction survey was carried out in a nuclear medicine department of a large acute hospital. Surveys were initially carried out by interview and postal techniques, with approximately 100 responders in each category. The responses to each question were not significantly different for the two types of surve...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Harding LK,Griffith J,Harding VM,Tulley NJ,Notghi A,Thomson WH

更新日期：1994-04-01 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：OBJECTIVE:The aim of the study was to determine the fraction of administered activity that was excreted and retained by a small cohort of patients who each received treatment with radium-223 dichloride (Ra). Ra is an α-emitting radionuclide that has been approved for use in the treatment of bone metastases that are sec...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Pratt BE,Hindorf C,Chittenden SJ,Parker CC,Flux GD

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Many studies have attempted to assess the significance of the use of the β(-)particle emitter praseodymium-142 ((142)Pr) in cancer treatment. As praseodymium oxide (Pr(2)O(3)) powder is not water soluble, it was dissolved in HCl solution and the resultant solution had to be pH adjusted to be in an injectable ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Bakht MK,Sadeghi M,Ahmadi SJ,Sadjadi SS,Tenreiro C

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of the study was to determine which of three two-parameter fitting functions (exponential, linear-log, and negative-power function of time) most accurately models early chromium-51-EDTA (51Cr-EDTA) plasma concentration data prior to 120 min in patients with cirrhosis and ascites and understand how th...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Wanasundara SN,Wesolowski MJ,Puetter RC,Burniston MT,Xirouchakis E,Giamalis IG,Babyn PS,Wesolowski CA

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scintimammography is a recently verified technique that will expand the use of nuclear medicine to a new group of patients in whom scintigraphic imaging has not been widely used. If performed correctly, and in certain groups of patients, it delivers a sensitivity as high as X-ray mammography or magnetic resonance imag...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Buscombe JR,Cwikla JB,Thakrar DS,Hilson AJ

更新日期：1997-08-01 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：: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：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：AIM:To report our data concerning the changes in post-stress and at-rest left ventricular ejection fraction and ventricular volumes in patients with thallium gated SPECT. METHODS:Post-stress and at-rest thallium gated SPECT was performed in 629 consecutive patients; left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), left vent...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： del Val Gómez M,Gallardo FG,San Martín MA,Garcia A,Terol I

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Exclusive use of the half-time of clearance of a filtration marker in the bolus injection, single compartment technique for measuring glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is a convenient approach that gives GFR (GFR(SO)) already scaled for extracellular fluid volume (ECV). It has been criticized as less accurate th...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Bird NJ,Peters C,Michell AR,Peters AM

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mobile PET/CT or mobile stand alone PET, is becoming more widely available throughout the developed world, allowing many small and medium-sized hospitals that do not have the scale or financial resources to purchase the static diagnostic equipment, to benefit from this imaging technology. Before embarking on such a se...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Chua SC,Perkins AC,Pearson D,Ganatra RH

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While 18F-FDG labelling of monocytes would allow in vivo trafficking with positron emission tomography (PET), present methods suffer from poor retention of radioactivity. We investigated the feasibility of utilizing insulin for improved [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) labelling. Separated human monocytes and lymphoc...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Paik JY,Lee KH,Byun SS,Choe YS,Kim BT

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The range of leucocyte labelling efficiencies with 111In-oxine for a group of patients extended significantly (P = 0.05) below that obtained for a series of labellings of the same normal blood from a volunteer. A retrospective analysis was made of the results in the two groups to identify the cause of this difference ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Mountford PJ,Allsopp MJ,Baird AC,North CI,Hall FM,Wells CP,Coakley AJ

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic low serum vitamin D concentrations are common among the elderly. Recent studies have suggested that its metabolite, 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25-OHD), might be important for preserving cognitive functions through specific brain protective effects. However, this hypothesis is still under discussion. The ai...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Farid K,Volpe-Gillot L,Petras S,Plou C,Caillat-Vigneron N,Blacher J

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of the study was to assess the contribution of 111In-pentetreotide single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT) imaging to conventional somatostatin receptor scintigraphy (SRS) in terms of lesion characterization and localization in the detection of neuroendocrine tumours (NETs)...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Sainz-Esteban A,Olmos R,González-Sagrado M,González ML,Ruiz MÁ,García-Talavera P,Gamazo C,Villanueva JG,Cobo A,de Luis D

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00