A brain uptake study of [1-(11)C]hexanoate in the mouse: the effect of hypoxia, starvation and substrate competition.

abstract：:A 62-year-old woman experienced headache and rapidly progressive left hemiparesis over 2 weeks. Diffusion-weighted and fluid-attenuated inversion recovery MR images of the head showed increased signal intensity in the right basal ganglia, periventricular white matter and the brain stem. Enhancement was not observed on...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Kawai N,Kawanishi M,Tamiya T,Nagao S

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:One mechanism that may be responsible for drug resistance in epilepsy is the upregulation of P-glycoprotein (P-gp), a drug efflux pump, at the epileptogenic focus. In this study, we sought to evaluate the potential of a recently developed P-gp PET radiotracer, [(11)C]N-desmethyl-loperamide ([(11)C]dLop), for ...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Farwell MD,Chong DJ,Iida Y,Bae SA,Easwaramoorthy B,Ichise M

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:An iterative reconstruction method in combination with resolution recovery, attenuation and scatter corrections (IR-RASC) can improve image quality. It, however, is undetermined whether this technique can improve the detection of coronary artery disease (CAD) when automated quantitative analysis is used. This...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Chono T,Onoguchi M,Shibutani T,Hashimoto A,Nakata T,Yama N,Tsuchihashi K,Hatakenaka M

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a comprehensive review of Neuroendocrine Tumors (NET) and the current and developing imaging and therapeutic modalities for NET with emphasis on Nuclear Medicine modalities. Subsequently, nanotechnology and its emerging role in cancer management, especially NET, are discussed. The article is both educative ...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Arora G,Bandopadhyaya G

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To determine an appropriate threshold value for delineation of the target in positron emission tomography (PET) and to investigate whether PET can delineate an internal target volume (ITV), a series of phantom studies were performed. METHODS:An ellipse phantom (background) was filled with 1028 Bq/ml of [(18)...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Okubo M,Nishimura Y,Nakamatsu K,Okumura M,Shibata T,Kanamori S,Hanaoka K,Hosono M

更新日期：2008-08-01 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：:Despite using various kinds of prognostic indicators, it is still not possible to predict the biological behavior of breast cancer in all patients. Tc-99m-sestaMIBI (MIBI) uptake determined by breast scintigraphy and cadherin expression of tumor tissue revealed by immunohistochemistry are suggested as potential agents...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Uğur Y,Sari O,Uğur O,Korkusuz P,Varoğlu E,Arslan N,Gürcan N,Yildirim M,Sökmensüer C,Aşan E,Aras T

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Primary brain lymphoma is an aggressive extranodal non-Hodgkin lymphoma with poor prognosis. Many possible prognostic factors are investigated with controversial results, but possible prognostic role of 18fluorine-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-FDG PET/CT) features re...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Albano D,Bertoli M,Battistotti M,Rodella C,Statuto M,Giubbini R,Bertagna F

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV infection results in profound alterations of immunologic function that render the patient severely immunocompromised, and susceptible to malignancies and opportunistic infections. Three AIDS-defining malignancies include Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) and invasive cervical cancer. In AIDS pati...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Liu Y

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：:A 48-year-old male patient was admitted to our hospital with dyspnea accompanied by orthopnea. Chest x-rays showed a cardiothoracic ratio of 68% and pulmonary congestion. He was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy. Beta-Blocker (carvedilol) therapy was initiated on Day 22 of the disease using a small initial dose. H...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Matsuo S,Nakae I,Masuda D,Matsumoto T,Horie M

更新日期：2005-05-01 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：:Portal-systemic shunting was studied in 54 portal hypertensive rats both in vivo and in vitro using radioactive microspheres. The animals underwent partial portal vein ligation around needles of varying diameter to produce a wide range of shunting. Two to four weeks later, quantitative lung-liver scintigraphic and who...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Stauber RE,Mochizuki T,Van Thiel DH,Tauxe WN

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Anatomic relation between pulmonary perfusion and morphology in pulmonary emphysema was assessed on deep-inspiratory breath-hold (DIBrH) perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)-CT fusion images. METHODS:Subjects were 38 patients with pulmonary emphysema and 11 non-smoker controls, who su...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Suga K,Kawakami Y,Iwanaga H,Hayashi N,Seto A,Matsunaga N

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：:We present a case of inferior vena cava (IVC) tumor thrombus detected by fluorine- 18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (18F-FDG-PET). A man underwent operations for the treatment of sigmoid colon cancer at the age of 63. Because tumor markers [carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and CA19-9] were increased at...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Kaida H,Ishibashi M,Kurata S,Uchida M,Hayabuchi N

更新日期：2007-06-01 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：:Osmotic demyelination syndrome can result from the rapid correction of hyponatremia, and is categorized by central pontine myelinolysis and extrapontine myelinolysis (EPM). Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is currently the most useful modality for visualizing EPM lesions. However, MRI is unable to delineate the severi...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Wu YC,Peng GS,Cheng CA,Lin CC,Huang WS,Hsueh CJ,Lee JT

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Enhanced washout of 99mTc-tetrofosmin (TF) has been reported in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Here, using quantitative dual-autoradiography, the relationship between TF retention abnormality and metabolism depicted by 125I-BMIPP uptake was investigated quantitatively in a hamster model of c...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Thet-Thet-Lwin,Takeda T,Wu J,Tsuchiya Y,Itai Y

更新日期：2004-05-01 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：: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

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：UNLABELLED:We propose a new method to quantify regional myocardial blood flow (rMBF) by continuous infusion of Tc-99m MIBI and dynamic SPECT. METHODS:Five patients with old myocardial infarction were studied. During continuous infusion of MIBI (approximately 740 MBq) with a syringe pump in 10 min, dynamic SPECT scan w...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Tsuchida T,Yonekura Y,Takahashi N,Nakano A,Lee JD,Sadato N,Yamamoto K,Waki A,Sugimoto K,Hayashi N,Ishii Y

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging is in common use preoperatively to clinically evaluate patients who present with central nervous system mass lesions. The usefulness of PET is also recognized as a method to detect intracranial tumorous lesions. A number of papers reportthat some inflammatory processes also s...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Tsuyuguchi N,Sunada I,Ohata K,Takami T,Nishio A,Hara M,Kawabe J,Okamura T,Ochi H

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) is a major risk factor for recurrent symptomatic urinary tract infection (UTI) in pediatric patients. In addition, dimercaptosuccinic acid renal scintigraphy (DMSA) is an important diagnostic modality of VUR. However, the value of DMSA for predicting recurrent pediatric UTI has not...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Kim D,Yoon HJ,Woo SH,Lee WJ,Kim BS,Chung YA,Oh JK

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：:Technetium-99m tetrofosmin and thallium-201 lung SPECT imaging were performed in a patient with adenocarcinoma of the lung. Significant activities in the lung lesion were clearly depicted on both technetium-99m tetrofosmin and thallium-201 SPECT imaging. The early uptake, delayed uptake ratios and retention indices of...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Matsunari I,Kinuya S,Nishikawa T,Matoba M,Murakita K,Ohguchi M,Ichiyanagi K,Taki J,Tonami N,Hisada K

更新日期：1996-02-01 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：:Since cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leakage is highlighted as a cause of persistent headache, radionuclide cisternography has been increasingly performed in Japan to confirm the disorder, although the limited ability of the examination should be recognized. We present 3 cases in which failure of a tracer injection was str...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Horikoshi T,Asari Y,Watanabe A,Uchida M,Umeda T,Kolzumi H,Kinouchi H

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00