Normal uptake of F-18 FDG in the testis as assessed by PET/CT in a pediatric study population.

abstract：:Physiological functions (e.g., cerebral blood flow, glucose metabolism, and neuroreceptor binding) can be investigated as parameters estimated by kinetic modeling using dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) images. Imaging of these physiological parameters, called parametric imaging, can locate the regional distr...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Shidahara M,Ikoma Y,Kershaw J,Kimura Y,Naganawa M,Watabe H

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：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:The deep-inspiration breath-hold PET/CT (DIBH PET/CT) technique improves the limitations of diagnosing a lesion located in an area influenced by respiratory motion that results in spatial misregistrations caused by respiration between PET and CT. However, its reproducibility with regard to calculating the ma...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Nagamachi S,Wakamatsu H,Kiyohara S,Fujita S,Futami S,Arita H,Tamura S,Kawai K

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a study of rCBF in the primary visual cortex of visually impaired subjects who have not been subjected to external stimulation for a long period, by means of 123I-IMP SPECT and MRI. The four subjects had lost their sight due to brain tumors (n = 2), glaucoma (n = 1) and trauma (n = 1). 123I-IMP SPECT show...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Ishikawa N,Nishijo K,Satou M,Takeda T,Itai Y

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the potential of sodium [1-(11)C]hexanoate (11C-HA) as a radiopharmaceutical with which to assess oxidative metabolism of the brain by PET. 11C-HA, sodium [1-(14)C]acetate and [3H]deoxyglucose were simultaneously injected into mice under control, hypoxic and starving conditions. In the control, the brain ...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Ishiwata K,Ishii K,Ogawa K,Nozaki T,Senda M

更新日期：1996-05-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Estimation of myocardial blood flow (MBF) and coronary flow reserve (CFR) by SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) remains challenging. Our aim was to approximate MBF and CFR by quantifying the absolute Tc-99m tetrofosmin retention in the myocardium via gated-SPECT/CT MPI. METHODS:Tracer retention was cal...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Apostolopoulos DJ,Kaspiri A,Spyridonidis T,Patsouras N,Savvopoulos CA,Davlouros P,Vassilakos PJ,Alexopoulos D

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Anatomic relation between pulmonary perfusion and morphology in pulmonary emphysema was assessed on deep-inspiratory breath-hold (DIBrH) perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)-CT fusion images. METHODS:Subjects were 38 patients with pulmonary emphysema and 11 non-smoker controls, who su...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Suga K,Kawakami Y,Iwanaga H,Hayashi N,Seto A,Matsunaga N

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Chemobrain is a recently proposed pathological entity. 18F-FDG PET/CT can show objective abnormalities to explain brain disorders caused by chemotherapy, although no study has investigated these phenomena in children to date. The main objective of the present study was to examine quantitatively the effects of...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Tauty A,Noblet V,Paillard C,Fornecker LM,Namer IJ,Bund C

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastatic tumors or secondary lymphoma of the kidney are rare and can often be missed on conventional computed tomography (CT) imaging. On the other hand, many types of metastatic tumor or lymphoma can be detected clearly as hotspots of elevated uptake on FDG PET. However, excreted FDG present in the urinary tract mi...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Kaneta T,Hakamatsuka T,Yamada T,Takase K,Sato A,Higano S,Kinomura S,Fukuda H,Takahashi S,Yamada S

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We compared the diagnostic value of fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) with that of computed tomography (CT) following radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of inoperable recurrent or metastatic cancers in the lung. METHODS:Twelve patients (9 males and 3 females; 5 had recurrent l...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Okuma T,Okamura T,Matsuoka T,Yamamoto A,Oyama Y,Toyoshima M,Koyama K,Inoue K,Nakamura K,Inoue Y

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Radium-223 (223Ra) is used in unsealed radionuclide therapy for metastatic bone tumors. The aim of this study is to apply a computational model observer to 223Ra planar images, and to assess the performance of collimators in 223Ra imaging. METHODS:The 223Ra planar images were created via an in-house Monte Ca...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Takahashi A,Baba S,Sasaki M

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The purpose of this study was to validate a double-injection (DI) method with N-isopropyl-[123I]p-iodoamphetamine (IMP) to measure regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) twice in a single session of dynamic SPECT and to elucidate a possible role of this method to identify patients with occlusive disease of majo...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Ueno M,Nishizawa S,Toyoda H,Shimono T,Miyamoto S,Hashimoto N,Konishi J

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear Medicine is the specialty of medical imaging, which utilizes a variety of radionuclides incorporated into specific compounds for diagnostic imaging and therapeutic applications. During recent years, research efforts in this discipline have concentrated on the decay characteristics of particular radionuclides a...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Finn RD

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study investigated the prognostic value of preoperative breast-specific gamma imaging (BSGI) uptake measured by a semi-quantitative method in invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC). METHODS:One hundred and sixty-two women with IDC who underwent preoperative BSGI were retrospectively enrolled. The tumor-to-nor...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Yoon HJ,Kim Y,Chang KT,Kim BS

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare histological findings of FDG-PET false-positive and true-negative hilar and mediastinal lymph nodes. METHODS:Sixty-seven lymphnode areas in 11 patients who were diagnosed to have N3 lymph nodes by FDG-PET and underwent surgery were histologically examined, and the histopathological findings in fal...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Shiraki N,Hara M,Ogino H,Shibamoto Y,Iida A,Tamaki T,Murase T,Eimoto T

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the cerebral muscarinic acetylcholinergic receptor (mACh-R) by means of 11C-N-methyl-4-piperidyl benzilate (11C-NMPB) and positron emission tomography (PET) in Alzheimer's disease (AD) cases, and the findings were compared with the cerebral blood flow (CBF) and the glucose metabolism (CMRGlc) to evaluate th...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Yoshida T,Kuwabara Y,Ichiya Y,Sasaki M,Fukumura T,Ichimiya A,Takita M,Ogomori K,Masuda K

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here a patient with mucosa associated lymphoid tissue (MALT)-lymphoma of the breast complicated with Sjögren syndrome. It is speculated that Ga-67 could accumulate not only in lymphoma lesions but also in benign lymphoproliferative locations of Sjögren syndrome. Gallium-67 scintigraphy might be useful for th...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Yoshimura M,Koizumi K,Satani K,Kakizaki D,Kawanishi Y,Ohyashiki K,Abe K

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We quantitated the protective effect of verapamil on reperfusion injury in canine myocardial infarct using 111In-anticardiac myosin antibody and correlated to the electronmicroscopic findings. Experimental myocardial infarction was performed by one hour occlusion of the anterior descending coronary artery and followed...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Chung JK,Lim SM,Lee MC,Koh CS,Lee M,Seo JW

更新日期：1991-09-01 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：:A rare case of inferior vena cava (IVC) thrombosis and pulmonary embolism secondary to acute exacerbation of chronic pancreatitis was reported. Radionuclide venography and lung perfusion scintigraphy were performed on a 46-year-old male with acute exacerbation of chronic pancreatitis who complained of mild swelling of...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Ohta H,Hachiya T

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyothorax-associated lymphoma (PAL) is a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma developing in the pleural cavity after a long-standing history of chronic pyothorax (CP). F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) imaging is a useful modality for determination of disease extent of various malignant tumors, includin...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Asakura H,Togami T,Mitani M,Takashima H,Yokoe K,Yamamoto Y,Nishiyama Y,Monden T,Toyama Y,Ohkawa M

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：:We reviewed the findings of adrenocortical scintigraphy with 131I-6-beta-iodomethyl-19-norcholesterol (NCL-6-131I) of 39 patients to clarify its role in the evaluation of unilateral adrenal or juxtaadrenal masses incidentally discovered by CT, ultrasonography or plain radiography. Twenty-seven benign adrenal masses sh...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Nakajo M,Nakabeppu Y,Yonekura R,Iwashita S,Goto T

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study is to assess the value of CT and bone scintigraphic findings for grading of rib chondrosarcoma. METHODS:Included in this study were six cases of histologically proven chondrosarcoma of the rib, in which bone scintigraphy and/or CT was performed. Correlation of histologic grade (I-...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Ehara S,Nakayama T,Nishida J,Shiraishi H,Yoshioka H,Aoki J

更新日期：2004-10-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Attenuation correction (AC) on nuclear images of non-uniform domains is generally performed by a change of the computed tomography (CT) values to μ values, which are then inserted as components into the detection probability of iterative reconstruction techniques (OS-EM Iterative AC). We established an AC tec...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Nakamura Y,Tomiguchi S

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attenuation correction is very important for quantitative SPECT imaging. We designed an uncollimated non-uniform line array source (non-uniform LAS) for attenuation correction based on transmission computed tomography (TCT) using Tc-99m and compared its performance with an uncollimated uniform line array source (unifo...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Kojima A,Kawanaka K,Nakaura T,Shiraishi S,Utsunomiya D,Katsuda N,Tomiguchi S,Yamashita Y,Matsumoto M,Motomura N,Ichihara T

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the genotoxic effects of (90)Y and (186)Re in patients with hemophilia who were undergoing radionuclide synovectomy (RS) procedure in the last 3 years. METHODS:Nineteen patients were enrolled in the study. Most of the patients (n = 17) were hemophilia-A (mean age 20.6 ± 10.5 years) and 18 pati...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Kavakli K,Cogulu O,Karaca E,Durmaz B,Ozkinay F,Aydogdu S,Ozkilic H,Balkan C,Karapinar D,Ay Y

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00