Quantitative imaging of neuroreceptors in the living human brain.

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：: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：: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：:The radioimmunoassay of digoxin is one of the most important services of the nuclear medicine laboratory. Precision and accuracy in the performance of the test are especially critical. A number of commerical kits are available and reliable. Pitfalls to be avoided includelimited availability or delay in performance of ...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Shapiro B,Kollmann GJ,Heine WI

更新日期：1975-07-01 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：:Molecular imaging has revolutionized clinical oncology by imaging-specific facets of cancer biology. Through noninvasive measurements of tumor physiology, targeted radiotracers can serve as biomarkers for disease characterization, prognosis, response assessment, and predicting long-term response/survival. In turn, the...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Gillman JA,Pantel AR,Mankoff DA,Edmonds CE

更新日期：2020-11-01 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：:Heart transplantation is an effective and life-saving therapy for patients with end-stage heart disease. Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) is a frequent complication after heart transplantation and a leading cause of graft failure and death. The diffuse involvement of the coronary macro- and microvasculature in CAV...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Chih S,Wiefels CC,Beanlands RSB

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) findings and their application to cerebrovascular disease are reviewed. Although the coupling of cerebral blood flow and metabolism are best studied with positron emission tomography, single-photon emission computed tomography measurements of rCBF can contribute to patient managemen...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Hellman RS,Tikofsky RS

更新日期：1990-10-01 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：: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

abstract：:Evaluation of ventricular performance is essential in the diagnosis and long-term management of patients with heart disease. This can be most easily performed clinically using simple tools. When more definitive objective assessment of cardiac function is indicated, the equilibrium gated blood pool study provides relia...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Strauss HW,McKusick KA,Boucher CA,Bingham JB,Pohost GM

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diphosphonate bone scan is ideally suited to assess many global, focal or multifocal metabolic bone disorders and there remains a role for conventional bone scintigraphy in metabolic bone disorders at diagnosis, investigation of complications, and treatment response assessment. In contrast, the role of bone scinti...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Cook GJ,Gnanasegaran G,Chua S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When serious infections are suspected, patients are often treated empirically with broad-spectrum antibiotics while awaiting results that provide information on the bacterial class and species causing the infection, as well as drug susceptibilities. For deep-seated infections, these traditional diagnostic techniques o...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Ordonez AA,Jain SK

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The best option for the treatment of end-stage renal disease is kidney transplantation. Prompt diagnosis and management of early posttransplantation complications is of utmost importance for graft survival. Biochemical markers, allograft biopsies, and imaging modalities are used for the timely recognition and manageme...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Aktaş A

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood cell labeling with 99mTc has progressed through various developmental phases. In the case of red cell labeling, the science seems to have matured sufficiently, although minor refinements in the procedures will no doubt continue to be made. During the last 3 to 5 years, there has been a resurgence of interest in ...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Srivastava SC,Straub RF

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with previously treated thyroid carcinoma require lifelong monitoring for recurrent disease. Two diagnostic tests that play a central role in follow-up of these patients--radioiodine whole body scanning and serum thyroglobulin measurement--are most accurate during thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) stimulation...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Ladenson PW

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computer tomography (CT) is a radiological imaging method which yields transverse tomographic images reflecting with high accuracy the spatial distribution of x-ray attenuation in the part examined. The contrast resolution achieved by CT permits the visualization of soft tissue structure heretofore invisible with conv...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Ter-Pogossian MM

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sickling of erythrocytes in patients with S-hemoglobin causes marrow and bone infarction. The former can be demonstrated as a lack of 99mTc-sulfur colloid uptake on marrow imaging examination. These defects may resolve or persist long after the acute episode. If the bone is involved in the acute episode, imaging withi...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Lutzker LG,Alavi A

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation and concurrent chemoradiation are essential in the treatment of head and neck cancers because they allow a potentially curative organ preservation approach in a manner that greatly affects quality of life. Greater doses of radiation to areas of gross disease have invariably led to greater loco-regional contr...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Ahn PH,Garg MK

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibody (MoAb) imaging has contributed greatly to the diagnosis and staging of both colorectal and ovarian cancers, and recently has been tested in patients with prostate cancer. Anatomic imaging modalities such as computed tomography, ultrasound, and magnetic resonance imaging have deficiencies in imaging...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Neal CE,Meis LC

更新日期：1994-10-01 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：:The use of positron emission tomography (PET) with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) in prostate cancer depends on the phase of the disease along the natural history of this prevalent malignancy in men. Incidental high FDG uptake in the prostate gland, although rare, should prompt further investigation with at least a meas...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Jadvar H

更新日期：2016-11-01 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：: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：:More than 7 million stress perfusion studies are performed in the United States annually, 44% with pharmacological vasodilator stress agents. Both adenosine and dipyridamole are nonselective coronary vasodilators that are commonly used for stress perfusion imaging. These agents are safe and provide an effective means ...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Druz RS

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：: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：:In the past, T3 suppression testing was often required to confirm the presence of autonomous thyroid function in patients with borderline clinical and laboratory findings suggestive of hyperthyroidism or in euthyroid patients with the stigmata of Graves' disease. Similarly, TSH stimulation testing was used to document...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Hurley JR,Becker DV

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New software methods that incorporate iterative reconstruction, resolution recovery, and noise compensation now provide the ability to maintain or improve myocardial perfusion SPECT image quality with conventional sodium iodide cameras. Despite lower image counting statistics associated with significantly decreased in...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Gordon DePuey E 3rd

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00