Comparison of 99Tcm-sestamibi and 201Tl-chloride to estimate right ventricular overload in children.

abstract：BACKROUND:Human tumors show intrinsic heterogeneity and changes in phenotype during disease progression, which implies different expression levels of cell surface receptors. The research on new heterodimeric lutetium-177 (Lu)-radiopharmaceuticals interacting with two different targets on tumor cells is a strategy for i...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Escudero-Castellanos A,Ocampo-García B,Ferro-Flores G,Santos-Cuevas C,Morales-Ávila E,Luna-Gutiérrez M,Isaac-Olivé K

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At present, it is difficult to distinguish between bacterial infections and sterile inflammatory processes using radiopharmaceuticals. This is so for a variety of reasons, including binding to bacteria with low affinity (e.g. infection) and binding to a specific micro-organism (e.g. radiolabelled monoclonal antibodies...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Nibbering PH,Welling MM,van den Broek PJ,van Wyngaarden KE,Pauwels EK,Calame W

更新日期：1998-12-01 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:The recent introduction of high-efficiency solid-state gamma cameras for myocardial perfusion single photon emission computed tomography has enabled lower patient radiation dose, faster imaging, and improved image quality. However, artifacts still complicate interpretation. Prone imaging is a common maneuver ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Howard BA,Roy Choudhury K,Oldan JD,Pagnanelli RA,Borges-Neto S

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) suffer from serious and life-threatening infections. These patients often present with pyrexia but without localizing signs. Despite its high sensitivity in identifying focal infection 67Ga citrate scintigraphy lacks specificity; lymphoma and solid tumours ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Buscombe JR,Miller RF,Lui D,Ell PJ

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uterine leiomyomas, benign tumours of the human uterus, are the most common uterine neoplasm and are composed of smooth muscle with varying amounts of fibrous connective tissue. As a functional imaging modality, 2-[F]fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (F-FDG) positron emission tomography can be used to obtain information about ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Ak I,Ozalp S,Yalçin OT,Zor E,Vardareli E

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique is described for the quantification of the three-dimensional distribution of 131I radiopharmaceuticals using single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). A theoretical discussion of the problems of scatter and septal penetration in 131I SPECT is presented. The correction of these effects using the g...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Fleming JS,Alaamer AA,Perring S

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The British Nuclear Medicine Society has developed a process for the service-specific organizational audit of nuclear medicine departments. This process identified the need for a scheme suitable for the audit of the scientific and technical standards of a department providing such a service. This document has evolved ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Jarritt PH,Perkins AC,Woods SD,British Nuclear Medicine Society.

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium iodide (131I) capsules are widely used for both diagnosis and therapy. The radiochemical purity of both diagnostic and therapeutic capsules in use in Australia was studied by gel chromatography, high voltage electrophoresis and paper chromatography. It was found that in two of the three bands of therapeutic cap...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Bonnyman J,Van Every B

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radioactive tracer techniques using 131I- and 125I-insulin have been applied to study insulin metabolism. A simple method to label human insulin with 123I to a high specific activity is described. We have used this radiotracer to study insulin kinetics in vivo in normal subjects and in two groups of diabetic patients....

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Sinclair AJ,Signore A,Bomanji J,Britton KE,Pozzilli P,Gale EA

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The value of gated single-photon emission computed tomography technetium-99m methoxyisobutylisonitrile (gated SPECT (99m)Tc-MIBI) in children is not yet established probably because gated SPECT (99m)Tc-MIBI has rarely been used in pediatric clinical and research studies. The purpose of this study was to eval...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Sobic-Saranovic DP,Pavlovic SV,Jovanovic IV,Stefanovic ID,Artiko VM,Djukic MM,Obradovic VB

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A miniature, non-imaging caesium iodide nuclear probe optically coupled to a photodiode (the 'Cardioscint') has been developed which, in conjunction with a modified personal computer, is capable of continuous on-line monitoring of left ventricular function and ST-segment level at the bedside. The purpose of this study...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Broadhurst P,Liu XJ,Cashman PM,Raftery EB,Lahiri A

更新日期：1992-05-01 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：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：: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：:Many common PET segmentation methods for malignant lesions use surrounding background activity as a reference. To date, background has to be measured by drawing a second volume of interest (VOI) in nearby, undiseased tissue. This is time consuming as two VOIs have to be determined for each lesion. The aim of our study...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Burger IA,Vargas HA,Beattie BJ,Goldman DA,Zheng J,Larson SM,Humm JL,Schmidtlein CR

更新日期：2014-03-01 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：: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：:The main aim of this study was to investigate the role of N-(2,4,6 trimethyl-3-bromophenylcarbamoylmethyl) iminodiacetic acid (IDA; Mebrofenin) scintigraphy in follow-up assessments of the biliary system in patients with cystic fibrosis associated liver disease. Fourteen patients from a study published in 1996 were re...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Foster JA,Ramsden WH,Conway SP,Taylor JM,Etherington C

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To make quantitative methods of nuclear medicine more available, four centres in Croatia participated in the national intercomparison study, following the materials and methods used in the previous international study organized by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The study task was to calculate the activ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Grošev D,Gregov M,Wolfl MR,Krstonošić B,Debeljuh DD

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radionuclide renography has a role in evaluating perfusion of transplanted kidneys. In the course of rejection, cortical perfusion decreases before urinary excretion changes. Based on the facts that 99Tcm-MAG3 has different pharmacokinetics and shows a higher kidney-to-background count ratio than 99Tcm-DTPA, we postul...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Oriuchi N,Miyamoto K,Hoshino K,Imai J,Takahashi Y,Sakai S,Shimada A,Endo K

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To measure and describe patterns of interobserver variation in visual interpretation of 18-FDG PET in malignant lymphoma. METHODS:Eleven nuclear medicine physicians with different levels of PET experience independently reviewed 37 18F-FDG PET scans of lymphoma patients (10 obtained at presentation, 27 during...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Zijlstra JM,Comans EF,van Lingen A,Hoekstra OS,Gundy CM,Willem Coebergh J,Bongers V

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the use of broth simulation as a means of validating the practice of sub-dispensing from stock vials of long-lived sterile radiopharmaceuticals. 'Matched' vials of nutrient broth accompanied the stock vials of long-lived sterile radiopharmaceuticals during their time in use and were subject to the same handl...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Murray T,Elliott AT,Hilditch TE

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using radionuclide methods the relationship between total and central blood volume and left ventricular function was studied in 12 patients with untreated essential hypertension and contrasted with the findings in eight normotensive subjects. The principal findings were of an increased stroke volume and end-diastolic ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Mackay I,Nath K,Watson ML,Hannan WJ,Muir AL

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Planar pulmonary scintigraphy is still regularly performed for the evaluation of pulmonary embolism (PE). However, only about 50-80% of cases can be resolved by this approach. This study evaluates the ability of tomographic acquisition (single photon emission computed tomography, SPECT) of the perfusion scan to improv...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Collart JP,Roelants V,Vanpee D,Lacrosse M,Trigaux JP,Delaunois L,Gillet JB,De Coster P,Vander Borght T

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to investigate myocardial findings of F-fluorodeoxyglucose PET/computed tomography (F-FDG PET/CT) after thoracic radiotherapy. METHODS:F-Fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT examination was performed in 38 patients at least 4 months after radiotherapy. Patients with known cardiac diseases,...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Unal K,Unlu M,Akdemir O,Akmansu M

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：:A comparative study of bone marrow scintigraphy using 99Tcm-nanocolloid, conventional bone scintigraphy and bone marrow biopsy were performed in 35 patients with histologically proven small cell carcinoma of the lung to determine whether bone marrow scintigraphy has a role in the early detection of bone marrow metasta...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Li DJ,Maughan TS,Miles KA,Wraight EP

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：PURPOSE:The present study evaluated the usefulness of postoperative fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (F-FDG) PET/computed tomography (CT) in the management of olfactory neuroblastoma (ONB). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Ten patients (eight men and two women; mean age, 48.5 years) with histologically confirmed ONB who underwent ...

journal_title：Nuclear medicine communications

authors： Fujioka T,Toriihara A,Kubota K,Machida Y,Nakamura S,Kishimoto S,Ohashi I,Shibuya H

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00