Pathophysiologic considerations and clinicopathological correlates of technetium-99m stannous pyrophosphate myocardial scintigraphy.

abstract：:Hybrid positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging (PET/MR) systems are now more and more available for clinical use. PET/MR combines the unique features of MR including excellent soft tissue contrast, diffusion-weighted imaging, dynamic contrast-enhanced imaging, fMRI and other specialized sequences as we...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Sollini M,Berchiolli R,Kirienko M,Rossi A,Glaudemans AWJM,Slart R,Erba PA

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the present time, there are three radiolabeled antibodies that have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for imaging of cancer, a fourth commercially sponsored product recommended for approval (as of 10/29/96, cap romab pendetide (ProstaScint; Cytogen Corp., Princeton, NJ) was upgraded from re...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Zuckier LS,DeNardo GL

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：:The practice of nuclear medicine in children is well established for imaging practically all physiologic systems but particularly in the fields of oncology, neurology, urology, and orthopedics. Pediatric nuclear medicine yields images of physiologic and molecular processes that can provide essential diagnostic informa...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Fahey FH,Goodkind AB,Plyku D,Khamwan K,O'Reilly SE,Cao X,Frey EC,Li Y,Bolch WE,Sgouros G,Treves ST

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The short range and high linear energy transfer of α-particles offer the potential for efficient tumor killing while sparing normal bystander cells. Hematologic malignancies are ideally suited to targeted α-particle therapy (TAT) due to easy accessibility of malignant cells in blood, bone marrow, lymph nodes, and sple...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Jurcic JG

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphomas represent a diverse range of diseases with manifold presentations, outlook, and therapeutic approaches. Key to the modern management of lymphoma is accurate delineation of the extent of disease. The inability of computed tomography (CT) to identify the involvement of nonenlarged nodes and its relatively poor...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Hicks RJ,Mac Manus MP,Seymour JF

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：: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：:Although planar radionuclide techniques provide accurate, noninvasive measurements of myocardial perfusion and function that are of proven clinical value in the evaluation of the cardiac patient, they are limited by poor object contrast and superimposition of surrounding structures. Due to incomplete angular sampling ...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Cerqueira MD,Harp GD,Ritchie JL

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to SEER Cancer Statistics Review there are around 165,000 new prostate cancer cases estimated in 2018 accounting for 9.5% of all newly diagnosed cancers. Accurate staging of primary prostate cancer is important for therapy selection (local vs systemic). Recent developments in molecular imaging may significan...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Pomykala KL,Farolfi A,Hadaschik B,Fendler WP,Herrmann K

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this work is to compare the characteristics of various techniques for functional renal imaging, with a focus on nuclear medicine and magnetic resonance imaging. Even with low spatial resolution and rather poor signal-to-noise ratio, classical nuclear medicine has the advantage of linearity and good se...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Durand E,Chaumet-Riffaud P,Grenier N

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is little information in the literature concerning the role of bone scanning in benign bone neoplasms except for sporadic reports. Since the advent of 99mTc-polyphosphate, bone imaging has proven feasible and useful in locating the cause of bone pain, such as in osteoid osteomas, which are not always radiologica...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Gilday DL,Ash JM

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the components of the thrombotic and fibrinolytic systems have at some time been evaluated as a means of carrying a radiolabel specifically to thrombi, although very few have been promising enough to emerge from investigational status to routine clinical use. New approaches are being explored, including improv...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Knight LC

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

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：:Concern about the spread of infections in the hospital setting has prompted regulatory agencies to mandate infection control standards. Each hospital department is required to have written policies and procedures which describe measures to prevent and control the spread of nosocomial infections (hospital acquired infe...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Adams A,Egan A

更新日期：1988-10-01 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：:The basic principles of the use of radiation dosimetry in nuclear medicine are reviewed. The basic structure of the main mathematical equations are given and formal dosimetry systems are discussed. An extensive overview of the history and current status of anthropomorphic models (phantoms) is given. The sources and ma...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Stabin M,Xu XG

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of labeled tracers in radioimmunoassay procedures (RIA) and the advantages of the iodine-labeled antigens over 14C or tritium-labeled antigens are discussed. Different methods of labeling with iodine isotopes are presented. The ease with which microgram amounts of hormonal proteins are tagged, achieving high...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Chervu LR,Murty DR

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the early 1970s, when Seminars in Nuclear Medicine started publication, little was known about the quality of reporting in biomedical journals. Senior scholars were invited to become scientific editors of journals based on their research credibility and stature. Their knowledge of journalology (publication science)...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Wilson M,Moher D

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the increasing life expectancy, the diagnosis of malignancy and treatment of elderly patients is becoming more common. Prostate cancer is particularly frequent in this setting. Many different approaches are now available, but some of them imply significant risks or collateral effects. In those patients an accur...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Castellucci P,Nanni C,Ambrosini V

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suspecting and diagnosing venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism remain major clinical problems. For a variety of reasons, including the patient's pre-existing cardiac and pulmonary status and the release of humoral mediators, pulmonary emboli evoke varied responses in different patients. Symptoms and signs of pulmo...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Palevsky HI

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of brain death has gained importance in the past few decades to prevent futile attempts to sustain ventilation and blood circulation when the brain has lost all function and to procure beneficial tissues or life-saving organs for transplantation. However, differences remain among professional societies and...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Sinha P,Conrad GR

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe our all-digital, filmless, department of nuclear medicine, which has been fully operational for 3 years. The approach to the design and implementation of a nuclear medicine picture archiving and communication system (PACS) is discussed, as well as enhancements found to be necessary or desirable during our ...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Cohen AM,Parker JA,Donohoe K,Jansons D,Kolodny GM

更新日期：1990-07-01 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：: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 order to assess the role of 99mTc-iminodiacetic acid (IDA) cholescintigraphy in evaluating postoperative patients, a total of 213 studies were performed in 189 patients over a 3-year time period. Of these, 130 studies were obtained in 125 cases with signs and/or symptoms suggesting postcholecystectomy syndrome. A n...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Weissmann HS,Gliedman ML,Wilk PJ,Sugarman LA,Badia J,Guglielmo K,Freeman LM

更新日期：1982-01-01 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：: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：:Positron emission tomography (PET) makes it possible for the first time to examine in living humans the chemistry of the brain, which relates the structures of the brain to the functions of the mind. PET scans make it possible to assess the state of neurotransmitter receptors, such as the dopamine, serotonin, muscarin...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Wagner HN Jr

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) is a rapidly expanding imaging modality, thanks to the availability of compact medical cyclotrons and automated chemistry synthesis modules for the production of PET radiopharmaceuticals. Despite the availability of many radiotracers, [(18)F]fluorodeoxyglucos...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Vallabhajosula S,Solnes L,Vallabhajosula B

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00