Prognostic implications of 62Cu-diacetyl-bis (N4-methylthiosemicarbazone) PET/CT in patients with glioma.

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: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：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：OBJECTIVE:While high-energy gamma and beta probes have gained considerable attention due to their ability to detect cancerous lesions using (18)F-FDG in humans intraoperatively, it is unknown whether the sensitivity of such probes would allow the detection of remaining tumor tissue in the resection bed after removal of...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Garcia-Parra R,Clinthorne N,Wang L,Picchio M,Piert M

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Although dual-energy (DE) acquisition with conventional 201Tl myocardial perfusion SPECT has several advantages such as improved attenuation of the inferior wall and increased acquisition counts, the characteristics of IQ-SPECT have not been fully evaluated. We evaluate the difference of characteristics betw...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Shibutani T,Onoguchi M,Yoneyama H,Konishi T,Matsuo S,Nakajima K,Kinuya S

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:An anthropomorphic pelvis phantom was made by the modification of a National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) phantom, currently the most popular one, and its clinical usefulness was evaluated. METHODS:The NEMA plus bone phantom was made by placing the pelvic bone model in the NEMA phantom. The NE...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Inoue K,Sato T,Kitamura H,Hirayama A,Kurosawa H,Tanaka T,Fukushi M,Moriyama N,Fujii H

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：OBJECTIVE:(11)C-Methionine positron emission tomography (MET-PET) has been used to distinguish brain tumor recurrence from radiation necrosis. Because the spatial resolution of conventional PET scanners is low, partial volume effect (PVE) may decrease the detectability of small tumor recurrence. The aim of this study i...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Okamoto S,Shiga T,Hattori N,Kubo N,Takei T,Katoh N,Sawamura Y,Nishijima K,Kuge Y,Tamaki N

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is the most severe manifestation of the infection caused by the protozoan Leishmania, recently on increase in Italy and Spain. The aim of the study was to describe FDG uptake patterns in VL patients (pts) who underwent 18F-FDG PET/CT. METHODS:A retrospective monocentric study of ...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Zanoni L,Varani S,Attard L,Morigi JJ,Vanino E,Ortalli M,Fonti C,Viale P,Re MC,Fanti S,Ambrosini V

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-positron emission tomography (PET) and PET/computed tomography (PET/CT) have had a considerable impact on the detection of various malignancies. PET and PET/CT are minimally invasive methods that can provide whole-body imaging at one time. Therefore, an FDG-PET cancer scre...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Yamamoto Y,Tasaki Y,Kuwada Y,Ozawa Y,Inoue T

更新日期：2016-02-01 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: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：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：:In order to investigate whether or not transferrin is involved in the uptake of 67Ga by inflamed liver (acute inflammatory tissues) the uptake of 67Ga by the liver of mice treated with carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) was studied. The serum GPT value reached its maximum on the 1st day after the CCl4 treatment. The uptake o...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Ohkubo Y,Sasayama A,Takegahara I,Katoh S,Abe K,Kohno H,Kubodera A

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary emphysema can be diagnosed easily by X-ray CT (CT) as a low attenuation area. Recently Tc-99m-Technegas (Technegas) has been used for ventilation scintigraphy. The present study was undertaken to assess the usefulness of planar and SPECT images by using Technegas scintigraphy in patients with pulmonary emphy...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Satoh K,Tanabe M,Takahashi K,Kobayashi T,Nishiyama Y,Yamamoto Y,Honjo N,Sasaki M,Ohkawa M,Fujita J,Okada H

更新日期：1997-05-01 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：RATIONALE:Myocardial perfusion SPECT is a commonly performed, well established, clinically useful procedure for the management of patients with coronary artery disease. However, the attenuation of photons from myocardium impacts the quantification of infarct sizes. CT-Attenuation Correction (AC) potentially resolves th...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Kroiss AS,Nekolla SG,Dobrozemsky G,Grubinger T,Shulkin BL,Schwaiger M

更新日期：2017-12-01 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：BACKGROUND:Despite recent technological advances allowing for quantitative single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), quantitative SPECT has not been widely used in the clinical practice of osteoporosis. The aim of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of quantitative bone SPECT/CT for measuring lumbar sta...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Huang K,Feng Y,Liu D,Liang W,Li L

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To design, build, and evaluate an animal PET scanner, which can be used with non-human primates under conscious condition, incorporating flat-panel position-sensitive photomultiplier tubes (PS-PMTs). METHODS:The system contains 30 detector modules, each having two PS-PMTs and 16×18 lutetium–yttrium oxyortho-...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Okamoto T,Ote K,Sakai K,Noda A,Shimizu K,Masuda K,Ohmura T,Watanabe M

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:We report FDG PET of two cases of cold abscess due to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Case 1 had colon cancer; FDG PET showed high FDG uptake in the colon lesion and low uptake in the inguinal lesion. The latter was a tuberculous cold abscess confirmed by CT/MRI and biopsy. Case 2 received radiotherapy for lung cancer and...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Yago Y,Yukihiro M,Kuroki H,Katsuragawa Y,Kubota K

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to investigate the lesion detectability of a gamma camera based coincidence detector system (c-PET system) in comparison to the dedicated PET system (d-PET system), and thereby clarify the feasibility of the clinical application of this system and also describe any factors influencin...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Koga H,Sasaki M,Kuwabara Y,Nakagawa M,Hayashi K,Kaneko K,Chen T,Honda H

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The main aim of this work is to build a robust Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) algorithm that efficiently and quickly classifies bone scintigraphy images, by determining the presence or absence of prostate cancer metastasis. METHODS:CNN, widely applied in medical image classification, was used for bone sc...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Papandrianos N,Papageorgiou EI,Anagnostis A

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 39-year-old woman with acute cholecystitis and gallstones underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy. She suffered from recurrent episodes of cholangitis due to injury of the major bile ducts during laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Hepatobiliary scintigraphy with Tc-99m Sn-N-pyridoxyl-5-methyltryptophan was performed. Alth...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Nishiguchi S,Shiomi S,Sasaki N,Iwata Y,Tanaka H,Kubo S,Hirohashi K,Ochi H

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary involvement secondary to Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia (WMG) is described in a 40-year-old male by incidental findings on a bone scan. He was examined for right leg pain, and bone scan revealed unexpected pulmonary uptake of Tc-99m MDP. CT scan of the thorax revealed pleural effusion and slightly dissemina...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Ortapamuk H,Alp A

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are proposing a new method for correcting of scattered photons in technetium-99m (99mTc) imaging by means of photopeak dual-energy window acquisition. This method consists of the simultaneous acquisition of two images and estimation of a scatter image included in the symmetric energy window (SW) image by the differ...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Kojima A,Tsuji A,Takaki Y,Tomiguchi S,Hara M,Matsumoto M,Takahashi M

更新日期：1992-08-01 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：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