Assessing prenatal depression i ...
Significant levels of prenatal depression are reported from the Indian subcontinent (25–45%). A wide variety of measures have been used to screen fo ...
Psychosocial risk and protectiv ...
Limited research has been conducted in the United Arab Emirates in relation to postpartum depression. The purpose of this study was to investigate t ...
Cortisol levels in pregnancy as ...
Antenatal maternal stress is thought to negatively affect fetal development, birth outcomes, and infant’s development. Glucocorticoids are suggested ...
The Vulnerable Personality Styl ...
The Vulnerable Personality Style Questionnaire (VPSQ) is a nine-item self-report scale developed to asses personality traits which increase the risk ...
Attentional processing of infan ...
The mother–infant relationship has an important influence on maternal mental health and infant development. Evidence suggests that this relationship ...
Interventions for the preventio ...
Postpartum psychosis is a serious disorder that can cause negative consequences for the mother, infant, and entire family.While reports of this cond ...
18F-FDG-PET/CT findings in prim ...
A 55-year-old female had an abnormal shadow on chest radiograph. Computed tomography (CT) revealed a 26-mm tumor mass in the left upper lobe. No mal ...
Improvement of image resolution ...
Objective Cerebral SPECT images require high spatial and contrast resolution for precise evaluation of the abnormal tracer distribution in the brain ...
Predicting sentinel lymph node ...
Objective Lymphoscintigraphy is an effective method for detecting sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs). However, the rate and degree of SLN detection is not ...
Comparison of a pixelated semic ...
Objective The aim of this work was to evaluate a pixelated semiconductor detector and non-pixelated scintillation detector in a pinhole SPECT system ...
Comparative study of anatomical ...
Objective In single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) cerebral blood flow studies, two major algorithms are widely used statistical parame ...
Semiquantitative analysis of C- ...
Objective 11C-Methionine positron emission tomography (MET-PET) has been used to distinguish brain tumor recurrence from radiation necrosis. Because ...
Intestinal uptake of 99mTc-MDP: ...
We present a case of a 60-year-old man with a history of severe hypoproteinemia and constitutional syndrome, suspected to have protein-losing entero ...
Severe vasospastic angina with ...
Iodine-123 beta-methyl-p-iodophenyl-pentadecanoic acid (BMIPP) imaging is useful to diagnose recent myocardial ischemia. A 27-year-old woman was ad ...
Overall and gender-based negati ...
Aims and objective A normal gated myocardial perfusion imaging (GMPI) has been found to have high diagnostic and negative predictive value (NPV) in ...
Clinical usefulness of a collim ...
Objective Imperfect image resolution because of finitesized collimator channels often causes a decrease in diagnostic performance in myocardial perf ...
Analysis of various malignant n ...
Objective The most distinctive feature of FDG-PET cancer screening program is the ability to find various kinds of malignant neoplasms in a single t ...
Comparison of left ventricular ...
Objective ECG-gated myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPS) can be used to determine several cardiac functional parameters (e.g., left ventricular e ...
Diagnostic role of initial rena ...
Objective Assessment of the first febrile urinary tract infection (UTI) in children has been the subject of debate for many years. Diagnosis of acut ...
Evaluation of radioiodinated qu ...
Objective A radioiodinated analog of PD153035 (m-IPQ) was evaluated as a potential epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase (EGFR-TK) activi ...
VEGF-A and its isoform VEGF121 ...
Objective To investigate the correlation of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) A and its isoform VEGF 121 mRNA expression with F-18 fluorodeo ...
Relationship of detection rate ...
Objective PET cancer screening is performed widely in Japan as opportunistic screening, but no study has focused on the correlation with various can ...
Omission of [15O]CO scan for PE ...
Objective CBF, OEF and CMRO2 provide us important clinical indices and are used for assessing ischemic degree in cerebrovascular disorders. These qu ...
Deep-inspiration breath-hold PE ...
Objective The objective of this study was to define the factors that correlate with differences in maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) in dee ...
Regional cerebral blood flow in ...
Purpose The graph plot method, a technique that uses N-isopropyl-123I-p-iodoamphetamine (IMP) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) ...