Gallium-67 uptake in fibrous dysplasia of the bone.

abstract：:Scintigraphy with 99mTc-diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid galactosyl human serum albumin (99mTc-GSA) was performed on 102 patients, then the hepatic extraction fraction (HEF), the rate constant for liver uptake of the tracer from the blood (K1) and the hepatic blood flow index (HBFI) were determined by spectral anal...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Fukui A,Murase K,Tsuda T,Fujii T,Ikezoe J

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the correlation between the F-18 FDG uptake in the normal testis as assessed by PET-CT and patient age in a pediatric study population. METHODS:The study population consisted of 22 subjects aged between 9 and 17 years. For these subjects 42 PET-CT scans were available for analysis. The testis ...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Goethals I,De Vriendt C,Hoste P,Smeets P,Ham H

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study is to establish the optimal regions of interest (ROIs) in anatomically normalized I-123 FP-CIT SPECT images for the quantification of dopamine transporter binding. METHODS:The subjects comprised 16 normal controls and 14 Parkinsonian patients. All of the normal control subjects underwen...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Nonokuma M,Kuwabara Y,Hida K,Tani T,Takano K,Yoshimitsu K

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The tumor-to-normal tissue (T/N) boron ratio is determined in a patient prior to boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) using 4-borono-2-18F-fluoro-L-phenylalanine (18F-FBPA) positron emission tomography (PET). The T/N ratio is used as a reference parameter to calculate BNCT dose and to evaluate treatment effec...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Lin YC,Chou FI,Yang BH,Chang CW,Chen YW,Hwang JJ

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：:Duodenogastric reflux, the reflux of duodenal bile into stomach, when suspected clinically requires an objective evaluation for proper management. In this study hepatobiliary scintigraphy in 91 patients of different clinical conditions was evaluated for presence of duodenogastric reflux. Upper gastrointestinal endosco...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Mittal BR,Ibrarullah M,Agarwal DK,Maini A,Ali W,Sikora SS,Das BK

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

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：BACKGROUND:ECG-gated myocardial perfusion SPECT is widely applied to diagnose ischemic heart disease, and such findings are useful to predict patient prognosis. However, Japan does not have a database that correlates SPECT image findings with the prognosis of patients who have ischemic heart disease. METHODS:A large-s...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Kusuoka H,Nishimura S,Yamashina A,Nakajima K,Nishimura T

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have assembled data from patients with fever of unknown origin who underwent gallium scintigraphy during the past 5 years in order to obtain a more current sampling of patients, and evaluated the role of gallium scintigraphy retrospectively. Of the 36 patients studied, gallium scintigraphy was positive and contribu...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Suga K,Nakagi K,Kuramitsu T,Itou K,Tanaka N,Uchisato H,Nakanishi T,Utsumi H,Yamada N

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Radium-223 (223Ra) has been approved for treatment in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostatic cancer (mCRPC) and bone metastasis. This α-emitting radionuclide has a beneficial effect on pain and is also capable to increase overall survival (OS). Several studies evaluated the prognostic value o...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Frantellizzi V,Monari F,Mascia M,Costa R,Rubini G,Spanu A,Di Rocco A,Lodi Rizzini E,Cindolo L,Licari M,Lavelli V,Nuvoli S,De Angelis C,Dionisi V,Ferrari C,De Vincentis G

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:An artificial neural network (ANN) has been applied to detect myocardial perfusion defects and ischemia. The present study compares the diagnostic accuracy of a more recent ANN version (1.1) with the initial version 1.0. METHODS:We examined 106 patients (age, 77 ± 10 years) with coronary angiographic findings,...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Nakajima K,Okuda K,Watanabe S,Matsuo S,Kinuya S,Toth K,Edenbrandt L

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：:Bone imaging is commonly used as a sensitive indicator of metastatic bone diseases or other bone pathology. Furthermore, it is now generally known that technetium-99m (99mTc) phosphonates tend to concentrate in various tissues other than bones. Ultrasonography is also widely used for the evaluation of pelvic masses. U...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Inoue H,Aizawa N,Mizuno T,Akashi T,Shimizu T,Fukushima Y,Suzuki Y

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the uptake and washout of I-123-metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) in neuronal (both intra- and extravesicular) and non-neuronal sites in the heart and its relationship to renal clearance. Acute renal failure was induced in rats by ligating the renal vessels, and the findings were compared with those of sh...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Arbab AS,Koizumi K,Araki T

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To compare the diagnostic accuracy of whole-body PET/CT and integrated PET/MR in relation to the total scan time durations. METHODS:One hundred and twenty-three (123) patients (40 males and 83 females; mean age 59.6 years; range 20-83 years) with confirmed primary cancer and clinical suspicion of metastatic di...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Ishii S,Shimao D,Hara T,Miyajima M,Kikuchi K,Takawa M,Kumamoto K,Ito H,Shishido F

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the degree of technetium-99m methoxyisobutylisonitrile (MIBI) uptake and its retention in delayed imaging in small cell lung cancer (SCLC) was correlated with the response to multiagent chemotherapy and to investigate if there was a relationship between the surv...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Akgun A,Cok G,Karapolat I,Goksel T,Burak Z

更新日期：2006-05-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Variable uptake of 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-glucose (FDG) has been noticed in positron emission tomography (PET) studies of gastric carcinoma patients, with low uptake occurring especially in some particular histological subtypes and early carcinomas. But this phenomenon has not been adequately explained. The ...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Yamada A,Oguchi K,Fukushima M,Imai Y,Kadoya M

更新日期：2006-11-01 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：:We report a patient with DTPA and DMSA uptake on unsuspected bone metastases. He had severe pain due to grade 3 hydronephrosis of his left kidney. When Tc-99m DTPA and DMSA renal scanning were performed for preoperative evaluation, abnormal radiopharmaceutical uptake on the iliac area was noted. Pancreatic adenocarcin...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Balci TA,Ciftci I,Karaoglu A

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Radioiodide is commonly used to diagnose and treat hyperthyroidism and thyroid carcinoma. However, we could not find any experimental data that strictly compared the biodistribution and thyroid uptake of radioactive iodide between the oral and intravenous (iv) routes with time. This prompted us to compare (12...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Kurosawa H,Sakurai K,Hasegawa H,Uchida K,Kasahara H,Minamizawa T,Nakajo M,Nakajo M

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exact localization of recurrent iodine-negative thyroid cancer is mandatory, since surgery is the only curative therapy option in patients with iodine-negative tumor tissue. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of (18)F-FDG-PET/CT as a routine diagnostic tool on clinical management in patients wi...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Bannas P,Derlin T,Groth M,Apostolova I,Adam G,Mester J,Klutmann S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:To determine the utility of the myocardial tracer Tc-99m-tetrofosmin in the examination of patients with left bundle branch block (LBBB) and to investigate Tc-99m-tetrofosmin uptake and retention in the myocardium, early and delayed Tc-99m-tetrofosmin SPECT was performed in 10 patients having LBBB without co...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Sugihara H,Kinoshita N,Adachi Y,Taniguchi Y,Ohtsuki K,Azuma A,Adachi H,Ushijima Y,Nakagawa M,Maeda T

更新日期：1998-10-01 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：OBJECTS:The purpose was to evaluate the correlation of the pre-treatment hematological parameters with metabolic parameters of primary tumor in baseline 18F-FDG PET/CT in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) and estimate the prognostic value of both. METHODS:We retrospectively investigated 231 patients with CRC who u...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Xu J,Li Y,Hu S,Lu L,Gao Z,Yuan H

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The variability of physiologic 18F-FDG uptake in the myocardium has hampered the accurate evaluation of cardiac glucose metabolism. We investigated the effects of multiple factors, including fasting duration and physical activity, on the physiologic uptake of 18F-FDG by the myocardium in healthy participants....

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Kang JY,Lee MY,Kim YH

更新日期：2021-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied various liver tumors by positron emission tomography with fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG-PET) to examine the diagnostic usefulness of this technique. We also examined the relation between findings on FDG-PET and the characteristics of hepatocellular carcinoma. FDG-PET was performed in 78 patients with ...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Iwata Y,Shiomi S,Sasaki N,Jomura H,Nishiguchi S,Seki S,Kawabe J,Ochi H

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Radio-guided sentinel node (SN) biopsy is a standard method used in the treatment of early breast cancer. Single photon emission computed tomography with computed tomography (SPECT/CT) has been commonly used for SN detection. SPECT/CT adds precise anatomical information of SN sites, and it is reported that mo...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Koizumi M,Koyama M

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is the established treatment for patients with chronic and severe heart failure, and it has been reported that the presence of left ventricular (LV) dyssynchrony is one of the most important factors which predict positive response of this therapy. In the present study,...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Kiso K,Imoto A,Nishimura Y,Kanzaki H,Noda T,Kamakura S,Ishida Y

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radium-223 dichloride (Ra-223) is the first targeted alpha therapy approved for the treatment of patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) with bone metastasis. Ra-223 improved overall survival in the international Phase III ALSYMPCA (ALpharadin in SYMPtomatic Prostate Cancer) study. Ra-223 was also de...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Hosono M,Ikebuchi H,Nakamura Y,Yanagida S,Kinuya S

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00