Imaging P-glycoprotein function in rats using [(11)C]-N-desmethyl-loperamide.

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：OBJECTIVES:This study was designed to investigate the efficacy of 99mtechnetium-three polyethylene glycol spacers-arginine-glycine-aspartic acid ([99mTc]3PRGD2) in the evaluation of patients with esophageal cancer. METHODS:Twenty-nine patients with a suspected esophageal lesion and for whom definite pathological diagn...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Zheng S,Chen Z,Huang C,Chen Y,Miao W

更新日期：2019-02-01 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：AIM:The aim of the study was to compare the kinetic analysis of 18F-labeled choline (FCH) uptake with static analysis and clinicopathological parameters in patients with newly diagnosed prostate cancer (PC). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Sixty-one patients were included. PSA was performed few days before FCH PET/CT. Gleason s...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Palard-Novello X,Blin AL,Bourhis D,Garin E,Salaün PY,Devillers A,Querellou S,Bourguet P,Le Jeune F,Saint-Jalmes H

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:123I-metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) myocardial scintigraphy is currently used to evaluate cardiac sympathetic nerve function, but MIBG also has the capacity to evaluate dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) severity and therapeutic effectiveness. In this study, we administered beta-blockers to a DCM hamster model and ...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Inoue A,Yamashina S,Yamazaki J

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：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：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the value of Bayesian penalized likelihood (BPL) reconstruction for improving lesion conspicuity of malignant lung tumors on 18F-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) positron emission tomography computed tomography (PET/CT) as compared with the ordered subset expectation maximization (OSEM) reconstructi...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Kurita Y,Ichikawa Y,Nakanishi T,Tomita Y,Hasegawa D,Murashima S,Hirano T,Sakuma H

更新日期：2020-04-01 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：AIM:The motion of the head during brain positron emission tomography (PET) acquisitions has been identified as a source of artifact in the reconstructed image. In this study, a method is described to develop an image-based motion correction technique for correcting the post-acquisition data without using external optic...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Nazarparvar B,Shamsaei M,Rajabi H

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:In a 43-year-old woman with fibrous dysplasia of the ribs and facial bone and in a 40-year-old man with fibrous dysplasia of the facial bone, there were considerable increases in the uptake of Tc-99m methylenediphosphonate (Tc-99m MDP) and Gallium-67 citrate. Fibrous dysplasia should be added to differential diagnosis...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Hoshi H,Futami S,Ohnishi T,Nagamachi S,Jinnouchi S,Murai N,Watanabe K

更新日期：1990-03-01 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：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：OBJECTIVE:To assess the diagnostic value of fluorine-18 fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) using standard uptake values (SUV) in the differential diagnoses of indeterminate pulmonary nodules. Specifically, we assessed the probability of malignancy for various SUV ranges, and compared the di...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Kim SC,Machac J,Krynyckyi BR,Knesaurek K,Krellenstein D,Schultz B,Gribetz A,DePalo L,Teirstein A,Kim CK

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To clarify the difference of (18)F-FDG uptake kinetics between FDG-avid metastatic lymph nodes (LNs) in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and FDG-avid benign LNs associated with various etiologies on dual-time point PET/CT scan, and to determine the optimal parameter for differentiation. METHO...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Suga K,Kawakami Y,Hiyama A,Sugi K,Okabe K,Matsumoto T,Ueda K,Tanaka N,Matsunaga N

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:123I-beta-methyl iodophenyl pentadecanoic acid (BMIPP) can visualize myocardial fatty acid metabolism and has extensive potential for diagnosing cardiac diseases such as acute coronary syndrome in the clinical setting. Increased BMIPP uptake with decreased perfusion occasionally occurs under acute reperfusion...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Fukushima K,Momose M,Kondo C,Hagiwara N,Sakai S

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to quantitatively assess the extent and severity of myocardial ischemia by Tc-99m sestamibi exercise myocardial scintigraphy, we developed a new method of change rate (CR) mapping and examined its efficiency. CR was calculated to divide the counts per pixel in the stress polar map by that in the rest polar ma...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Nakata S,Higashino H,Kuwahara T,Tanada S,Hamamoto K

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Lung clearance rates of inhaled (99m)Tc-DTPA aerosols constitute a sensitive index to evaluate the permeability changes characteristic of airway epithelial damage. It was thought that edema of the airway wall which is reported in asthma could be relieved with a diuretic like furosemide, helping to relieve the...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Bhure UN,Bhure SU,Bhatt BM,Mistry S,Pednekar SJ,Chari VV,Desai SA,Joshi JM,Paidhungat AJ

更新日期：2009-08-01 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

abstract：:A 62-year-old man with a soft, non-tender, movable mass 2.5 x 2.5-cm in diameter in the volar surface of the right index finger over the proximal phalanx underwent Tc-99m RBC perfusion and blood-pool scintigraphy to evaluate the vascular nature and extent of the mass. Highly increased activity on early and delayed blo...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Lim ST,Kim MW,Sohn MH

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study aims to determine whether a (131)I double-phase whole body scan (WBS) and SPECT-CT images have added value over a single-phase WBS image in identifying benign and malignant lesions in patients with well-differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) at their first radioactive iodine (RAI) treatment. METHODS:...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Wakabayashi H,Nakajima K,Fukuoka M,Inaki A,Nakamura A,Kayano D,Kinuya S

更新日期：2011-11-01 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：OBJECTIVE:The potential of positron emission tomography/computed tomography using 62Cu-diacetyl-bis (N4-methylthiosemicarbazone) (62Cu-ATSM PET/CT), which was originally developed as a hypoxic tracer, to predict therapeutic resistance and prognosis has been reported in various cancers. Our purpose was to investigate pr...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Toriihara A,Ohtake M,Tateishi K,Hino-Shishikura A,Yoneyama T,Kitazume Y,Inoue T,Kawahara N,Tateishi U

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of calcifying soft tissue malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) which showed a concentration of Tc-99m MDP and Ga-67 citrate, is presented. Tc-99m MDP and Ga-67 citrate scintigraphies of the thigh mass were correlated with conventional radiography, computed tomography (CT) and angiography. ...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Kida T,Hoshi K,Hoshino R,Fujita Y,Munakata S,Yanagisawa M

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study is to survey the situation of (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) cancer screening in Japan and to describe its performance profile. METHODS:"FDG-PET for cancer screening" was defined as FDG-PET or positron emission tomography and computed tomography (PET/CT)...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Minamimoto R,Senda M,Uno K,Jinnouchi S,Iinuma T,Ito K,Okuyama C,Oguchi K,Kawamoto M,Suzuki Y,Tsukamoto E,Terauchi T,Nakashima R,Nishio M,Nishizawa S,Fukuda H,Yoshida T,Inoue T

更新日期：2007-11-01 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：PURPOSE:Nitrate administration has been proposed to enhance the detection of myocardial viability when performing myocardial perfusion imaging. In this study, we aimed to compare Tl-201 exercise-rest-reinjection protocol with rest isosorbide dinitrate (ISDN)-Tc99m MIBI study in the same population examined for the myoc...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Günel SE,Akgun A

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：PURPOSE:This study aimed at demonstrating the feasibility of retrospectively fused (18)F FDG-PET and MRI (PET/MRI fusion image) in diagnosing pancreatic tumor, in particular differentiating malignant tumor from benign lesions. In addition, we evaluated additional findings characterizing pancreatic lesions by FDG-PET/MR...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Nagamachi S,Nishii R,Wakamatsu H,Mizutani Y,Kiyohara S,Fujita S,Futami S,Sakae T,Furukoji E,Tamura S,Arita H,Chijiiwa K,Kawai K

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00