Regional cerebral blood flow in a patient with Nasu-Hakola disease.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the role of serial FLT-PET scans during early neoadjuvant treatment as a prognostic marker of response to treatment and survival. METHODS:This study is a prospective cohort study which draws from a larger original study which examined the utility of FLT-PET imaging across multiple cancers. Our coho...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Ueberroth BE,Lawhorn-Crews JM,Heilbrun LK,Smith DW,Akoury J,Ali-Fehmi R,Eiseler NT,Shields AF

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is an aggressive lymphoma sub-type with poor prognosis and high 18F-FDG avidity at PET/CT; nowadays, no validated criteria for PET/CT in treatment response evaluation and prediction of outcome are present. The aim of study was to investigate whether the metabolic PET/CT features may...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Albano D,Bosio G,Bianchetti N,Pagani C,Re A,Tucci A,Giubbini R,Bertagna F

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Estimation of nonlinear micro-parameters is a computationally demanding and fairly challenging process, since it involves the use of rather slow iterative nonlinear fitting algorithms and it often results in very noisy voxel-wise parametric maps. Direct reconstruction algorithms can provide parametric maps wi...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Angelis GI,Matthews JC,Kotasidis FA,Markiewicz PJ,Lionheart WR,Reader AJ

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Enhanced washout of 99mTc-tetrofosmin (TF) has been reported in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Here, using quantitative dual-autoradiography, the relationship between TF retention abnormality and metabolism depicted by 125I-BMIPP uptake was investigated quantitatively in a hamster model of c...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Thet-Thet-Lwin,Takeda T,Wu J,Tsuchiya Y,Itai Y

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the usefulness of a combination of linearization and scatter-attenuation correction on 99mTc-bicisate (ECD)-single photon emission tomographic (SPECT) images, both cerebral blood flow (CBF)-positron emission tomographic (PET) images and ECD-SPECT images from fifteen patients with chronic cerebral infarctio...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Kado H,Iida H,Kimura H,Ogawa T,Narita Y,Hatazawa J,Tsuchida T,Yonekura Y,Itoh H

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fine 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-glucose (18FDG) powder was obtained by adding diethyl ether into a methyl alcohol solution of 18FDG and other sugar as seed. When micronized particles of sodium N-acetyl-neuraminate (Neu5Ac-Na) were used as seed crystals, particles containing 18FDG were obtained and 80% of them were smalle...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Ojima F,Ido T,Takahashi T,Hatazawa J,Ito M,Sasaki H,Yanai M,Aikawa T,Takishima T,Abiko K

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the acute ischemic events, such as acute coronary syndromes and stroke, are attributed to vulnerable plaques. These lesions have common histological and pathophysiological features, including inflammatory cell infiltration, neo-angiogenesis, remodelling, haemorrhage predisposition, thin fibrous cap, large lipi...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Giannakou S,Angelidis G,Tsougos I,Valotassiou V,Kappas K,Georgoulias P

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) in differentiating pulmonary artery sarcoma from pulmonary embolism. MATERIALS AND METHODS:We evaluated three patients with pulmonary artery sarcoma and 10 patients with proximal pulmon...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Ito K,Kubota K,Morooka M,Shida Y,Hasuo K,Endo H,Matsuda H

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors (RECIST) is the most used radiological method for evaluating response after peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) in patients with neuroendocrine tumors. This method may give too positive estimates of response in slow growing tumors as it allows a substa...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Løitegård T,Berntzen DT,Thiis-Evensen E

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:CBF, OEF and CMRO(2) provide us important clinical indices and are used for assessing ischemic degree in cerebrovascular disorders. These quantitative images can be measured by PET using (15)O-labelled tracers such as C(15)O, C(15)O(2) and (15)O(2). To reduce the time of scan, one possibility is to omit the u...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Sasakawa Y,Kudomi N,Yamamoto Y,Monden T,Kawai N,Nishiyama Y

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral perfusion single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) has been used to confirm the localization of the epileptic focus and the evaluation of seizure. Recently, diffusion-weighted MR imaging (DWI) has been recognized for evaluation of seizure activity. We describe a case of transient seizure activity de...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Sagiuchi T,Ishii K,Asano Y,Aoki Y,Woodhams R,Yanaihara H,Kan S,Hayakawa K

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Treatment effect of radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is traditionally accomplished with MRI and/or CT. The aim of the study was to assess the role of FDG-PET in post RFA hepatic tumor evaluation, in comparison with MRI and CT. MATERIALS AND METHODS:28 patients (33 hepatic RFA lesions) who had post RFA FDG-PET wit...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Chen W,Zhuang H,Cheng G,Torigian DA,Alavi A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) using gallium (Ga) has been frequently used for diagnosing head and neck tumors in patients. Although the usefulness of Ga-SPECT is well known, the degree of the increase in diagnostic ability with Ga-SPECT for head and neck tumors has not been reported. We c...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Kotani J,Kawabe J,Higashiyama S,Kawamura E,Oe A,Hayashi T,Kurooka H,Tsumoto C,Kusuki M,Yamane H,Shiomi S

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Bone-seeking radiopharmaceuticals have the main role in the treatment of painful bone metastases. The aim of this study was to dosimetrically compare radiopharmaceuticals in use for bone pain palliation therapy and bone scan. METHODS:The MCNPX code was used to simulate the radiation transport in a vertebral ...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Sadremomtaz A,Masoumi M

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of Plummer's disease that spontaneously progressed to hypothyroidism is presented. A 49-year-old female visited our hospital because of a 3 kg decrease in body weight during the previous month and a painless nodule in the right anterior area of her neck. A diagnosis of Plummer's disease was made based on the re...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Nakae T,Kawanaka M,Suehiro M,Sugita M,Fukuchi M

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(-)-O-Methylvesamicol ((-)-OMV) exhibited in vitro a high affinity for vesicular acetylcholine transporter (VAChT) (Ki, 6.7 nM) and a relatively low affinity for sigmal receptor (Ki, 33.7 nM). We prepared (-)-[11C]OMV by a palladium-promoted cross-coupling reaction using [11C]methyl iodide, in a radiochemical yield of...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Kawamura K,Shiba K,Tsukada H,Nishiyama S,Mori H,Ishiwata K

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone scintigraphy is often performed to assess the response to systemic therapy of bone metastasis from prostate cancer. We examined the changes in bone scintigraphic findings and the agreement with AIP, AcP, or other tumor markers measured in the follow-up of patients with known bone metastasis after hormonal therapy...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Koizumi K,Uchiyama G,Komatsu H

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the potential role of Tc-99m depreotide (Tc-DEPR) in the preoperative lymph node (N) staging of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). METHODS:Sixty-one patients with NSCLC at the potentially operable stage were enrolled and underwent scintigraphy before surgery (n=56) or mediastinoscopy (n=5). I...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Apostolopoulos DJ,Koletsis EN,Spyridonidis T,Paschali A,Papandrianos N,Stamou E,Vassilakos PJ,Dougenis D

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 48-year-old woman with left adrenal tumor, which showed increased uptake of [18F] 2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) was presented. Her adrenal tumor was incidentally discovered, although she had no remarkable illness, and her blood pressure was normal. Hormonal examination including dexamethason suppression test and ...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Shimizu A,Oriuchi N,Tsushima Y,Higuchi T,Aoki J,Endo K

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is generally characterized by a decrease in regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in the occipital lobe. However, not all patients with DLB have this feature. We explored characteristics of rCBF pattern changes to improve the identification of DLB, in addition to occipital hypope...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Shimizu S,Hanyu H,Hirao K,Sato T,Iwamoto T,Koizumi K

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Studies have suggested that ischemia-induced diastolic dysfunction persists longer than systolic dysfunction. We examined whether global left ventricular (LV) diastolic function during stress testing assessed by 16-frame gated myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is useful a...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Nakae I,Matsuo S,Matsumoto T,Mitsunami K,Horie M

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Primary brain lymphoma is an aggressive extranodal non-Hodgkin lymphoma with poor prognosis. Many possible prognostic factors are investigated with controversial results, but possible prognostic role of 18fluorine-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-FDG PET/CT) features re...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Albano D,Bertoli M,Battistotti M,Rodella C,Statuto M,Giubbini R,Bertagna F

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of inferior vena cava (IVC) tumor thrombus detected by fluorine- 18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (18F-FDG-PET). A man underwent operations for the treatment of sigmoid colon cancer at the age of 63. Because tumor markers [carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and CA19-9] were increased at...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Kaida H,Ishibashi M,Kurata S,Uchida M,Hayabuchi N

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Breast cancer is the most common malignancy for females worldwide. This study was to evaluate the application of dual-phase breast-specific gamma imaging (BSGI) in detecting primary breast cancer. METHODS:Seventy-six patients with indeterminate breast lesions that underwent dual-phase BSGI enrolled in this ...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Tan H,Jiang L,Gu Y,Xiu Y,Han L,Wu P,Zhang H,Shi H

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aortic knob width on chest radiography represents the extent of aortic dialation and tortuosity of the aortic arch. We tested the hypothesis that aortic knob width reflected left ventricular (LV) diastolic function assessed by gated myocardial perfusion single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in p...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Kurisu S,Higaki T,Sumimoto Y,Ikenaga H,Watanabe N,Ishibashi K,Dohi Y,Fukuda Y,Kihara Y

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of an atypical bronchial carcinoid showing sestamibi uptake. A 27-year-old man with Kallmann's syndrome and hyperparathyroidism had parathyroid scintigraphy with 99mTc-sestamibi. A focal uptake was observed on the right perihilar region, and this right perihilar mass was demonstrated on computed tomog...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Yapar Z,Kibar M,Sükan A,Paydaş S,Zeren H,Inal M

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the optimal accumulation time for three-dimensional positron emission tomography (3D-PET) with (18)F-2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose ((18)F-FDG) to detect the brain uptake pattern typical of Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS:Patients with mild AD or amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and normal...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Takahashi R,Ishii K,Senda M,Ito K,Ishii K,Kato T,Makishi Y,Nishio T,Ikari Y,Iwatsubo T,Japanese Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative.

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In high-risk patients with left bundle-branch block (LBBB), functional but not perfusion parameters yield incremental prognostic information. The aim of our study was to evaluate the prognostic value of gated single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in low-intermediate risk LBBB patients. METHODS:O...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Fovino LN,Saladini G,Mormino GP,Saladini F,Razzolini R,Evangelista L

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is a transmembrane glycoprotein highly expressed by prostate cancer cells. PSMA-based radioligand therapy (RLT) emerged as a promising therapeutic option for prostate cancer in the early 2000s, and has been clinically validated with great enthusiasm during these past two decad...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Inubushi M,Miura H,Kuji I,Ito K,Minamimoto R

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filtered back projection (FBP) method, maximum likelihood-expectation maximization(ML-EM) method, and ordered subsets-expectation maximization (OS-EM) method are currently used for reconstruction of SPECT images in clinical studies. In the ML-EM method, images of good quality can be reconstructed even with a small sam...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Takahashi Y,Murase K,Mochizuki T,Higashino H,Sugawara Y,Kinda A

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00