Myocardial infarct imaging with technetium-labeled complexes.

abstract：:Positron emission tomography (PET) using the radiotracer 3'-deoxy-3'-[(18)F]fluorothymidine (FLT) can image cellular proliferation in human cancers in vivo. FLT uptake has been shown to correlate with pathology-based proliferation measurements, including the Ki-67 score, in a variety of human cancers. Unlike pathology...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Salskov A,Tammisetti VS,Grierson J,Vesselle H

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of radioactive tracer is associated with specific histological changes. Awareness of these changes permits a more specific interpretation of a positive bone scan, especially when correlating the radionuclide image with the plain radiographs. Increased uptake in the flow phase of an imaging study usual...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： McCarthy EF

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular medicine enhances the clinician's ability to accurately diagnose and treat disease, and many technological advances in diverse fields have made the translation of molecular medicine to the clinic possible. Nuclear medicine encompasses 2 technologies--single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and pos...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Rowland DJ,Cherry SR

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radionuclide angiocardiography and myocardial perfusion imaging with exercise are valuable methods to assess patients undergoing percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. Successful angioplasty results in improvement in ventricular systolic and diastolic function and regional perfusion. Complications of angiopla...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： DePuey EG

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The radionuclide (99m)Tc-MDP bone scan is one of the most commonly performed nuclear medicine studies and helps in the diagnosis of different pathologies relating to the musculoskeletal system. With its increasing utility in clinical practice, it becomes more important to be aware of various limitations of this imagin...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Agrawal K,Marafi F,Gnanasegaran G,Van der Wall H,Fogelman I

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the components of the thrombotic and fibrinolytic systems have at some time been evaluated as a means of carrying a radiolabel specifically to thrombi, although very few have been promising enough to emerge from investigational status to routine clinical use. New approaches are being explored, including improv...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Knight LC

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) is the radiotracer used in the vast majority of positron emission tomography (PET) cancer studies. FDG is a powerful radiotracer that provides valuable data in many cancer types. Normal FDG biodistribution is easily identified. In the PET-only era, physiological uptake provided important...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Cohade C

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessment of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) is useful in the evaluation of cerebral vascular disease. However, a single resting study has limitations in that a normal rCBF may be present with diminished cerebral vascular flow reserve and regions of decreased rCBF may be seen with diaschisis or selective neuronal...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Yudd AP,Van Heertum RL,Masdeu JC

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most positron emission tomography (PET) imaging studies in head and neck cancer are performed using the radiotracer 18-fluorodeoxyglucose ((18)FDG). PET with FDG has become a standard clinical imaging modality in patients with head and neck cancer. It contributes valuable information in localizing a primary tumor in p...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Schöder H,Yeung HW

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positron emission tomography (PET) scanning has been a powerful research tool since its inception. Changes in the marketplace that have allowed PET to move into the clinical environment include the commercial availability of appropriate radiopharmaceuticals, reimbursement of procedures by insurance companies, and incr...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Lissak RJ

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although electronic imaging was performed in the early 1950s in nuclear medicine, it was the introduction of computed tomography in 1972 that caused a revolution in medical imaging in that it marked the beginning of the inevitable transformation to digital imaging. This transformation is now more or less complete. Whi...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Yaffe MJ

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-deoxy-2-[18F] fluoro-D-glucose (18FDG) was developed in 1976 in a collaboration between scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the University of Pennsylvania, and Brookhaven National Laboratory. It was developed for the specific purpose of mapping brain glucose metabolism in living humans, thereby serving ...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Fowler JS,Ido T

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much efficacy is gained in clinical practice if a single agent can be used for both diagnosis and therapy, a practice termed theranostics. Metaiodobenzylguanidine (mIBG), a norepinephrine analogue with high sensitivity and specificity for neuroblastoma, is an exemplar of theranostics. The physiologic biodistribution o...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Parisi MT,Eslamy H,Park JR,Shulkin BL,Yanik GA

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The basic principles of the use of radiation dosimetry in nuclear medicine are reviewed. The basic structure of the main mathematical equations are given and formal dosimetry systems are discussed. An extensive overview of the history and current status of anthropomorphic models (phantoms) is given. The sources and ma...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Stabin M,Xu XG

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past several decades, PET has emerged as critical to accurate staging and restaging of lymphomas. Nonetheless, a number of critical issues regarding its optimal use remain. Whereas risk-adapted strategies appear to improve the outcome of patients with Hodgkin lymphoma, results are less convincing in non-Hodgk...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Cheson BD

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of simultaneous PET/MRI brought a large amount of possibilities in research and clinical applications into hybrid imaging. Unlike in PET/CT protocols, the MR component provides an almost unlimited number of pulse sequences and possibilities of different protocols in PET/MRI. Nevertheless, there is an impera...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Barbosa Fde G,von Schulthess G,Veit-Haibach P

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybrid positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging (PET/MR) systems are now more and more available for clinical use. PET/MR combines the unique features of MR including excellent soft tissue contrast, diffusion-weighted imaging, dynamic contrast-enhanced imaging, fMRI and other specialized sequences as we...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Sollini M,Berchiolli R,Kirienko M,Rossi A,Glaudemans AWJM,Slart R,Erba PA

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review describes general concepts with regard to radiopharmaceuticals for diagnostic or therapeutic applications that help to understand the specific challenges encountered during the design, (radio)synthesis, in vitro and in vivo evaluation and clinical translation of novel radiopharmaceuticals. The design of a ...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Vermeulen K,Vandamme M,Bormans G,Cleeren F

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concern about the spread of infections in the hospital setting has prompted regulatory agencies to mandate infection control standards. Each hospital department is required to have written policies and procedures which describe measures to prevent and control the spread of nosocomial infections (hospital acquired infe...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Adams A,Egan A

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear imaging in the definition of the components of the congenitally enlarged extremity is important in the design of a successful therapeutic regimen. In our series of 32 patients evaluated for primary lymphedema, 85% were determined to have abnormalities that were not purely lymphatic in origin. The multiscintigr...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Mandell GA,Alexander MA,Harcke HT

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autonomic innervation plays an important role in proper functioning of the cardiovascular system. Altered cardiac sympathetic function is present in a variety of diseases, and can be assessed with radionuclide imaging using sympathetic neurotransmitter analogues. The most studied adrenergic radiotracer is cardiac 123I...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Wan N,Travin MI

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the most common cancers in men and is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the USA. In the United States, it is the second most frequently diagnosed cancer after skin cancer, and in Europe it is number one. According to the American Cancer Society, approximately 221,000 ...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Evans-Axelsson S,Timmermand OV,Bjartell A,Strand SE,Elgqvist J

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenal scintigraphy is a unique nuclear medicine procedure that provides noninvasive, functional information concerning the status of the adrenal cortex. The uptake of iodocholesterol, in addition to localizing adrenal cortical abnormalities, can be manipulate to focus on adrenal cortical dysfunction in either the al...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Gross MD,Valk TW,Swanson DP,Thrall JH,Grekin RJ,Beirewaltes WH

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone metastases are associated with increased morbidity and poor prognosis in castration-resistant prostate cancer. Since 2010, 5 systemic therapies for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration based on an improvement in overall survival, offering altern...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Abi-Ghanem AS,McGrath MA,Jacene HA

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardial perfusion imaging with 15O-water positron emission tomography (PET) is a validated tool for quantitative measurement of myocardial blood flow (MBF) and myocardial flow reserve (MFR). Current scanner and software technology enable quantification of global and regional MBF in clinical PET myocardial perfusion...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Maaniitty T,Knuuti J,Saraste A

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the present time, there are three radiolabeled antibodies that have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for imaging of cancer, a fourth commercially sponsored product recommended for approval (as of 10/29/96, cap romab pendetide (ProstaScint; Cytogen Corp., Princeton, NJ) was upgraded from re...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Zuckier LS,DeNardo GL

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postsurgical bile leaks can be associated with significant morbidity and even mortality, if not identified and treated at an early phase. Hepatobiliary iminodiacetic acid (HIDA) scan is an important test for detection of bile leaks in the postoperative abdomen. However, the lack of anatomical details on planar images ...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Matesan M,Bermo M,Cruite I,Shih CH,Elojeimy S,Behnia F,Lewis D,Vesselle H

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is little information in the literature concerning the role of bone scanning in benign bone neoplasms except for sporadic reports. Since the advent of 99mTc-polyphosphate, bone imaging has proven feasible and useful in locating the cause of bone pain, such as in osteoid osteomas, which are not always radiologica...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Gilday DL,Ash JM

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vital blue dyes were used to show the feasibility and accuracy of intraoperative lymphatic mapping of the sentinel node (SN) in patients with melanoma, breast cancer, and other solid tumors. Surgeons who have successfully completed an adequate number of cases of intraoperative mapping and sentinel lymph node dissectio...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Bostick PJ,Giuliano AE

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past 20 years there have been great advances in our understanding of the molecular genetics of gastrointestinal tumors. In general, cancers develop and proliferate due to: driver mutations or related alterations in the genome resulting in overactivity of oncogenes, underactivity of tumor suppressor genes allowi...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Wahl RL

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00