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) ...
The potential of FDG-PET/CT for ...
Purpose The aim of this study is to evaluate the potential and limitation of FDG-PET/CT for detecting prostate cancer in subjects with an elevated s ...
Small lesions detectability wit ...
Objectives The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact on lesion detectability of fast imaging protocols using 18F-FDG and a 3-dimensional ...
Is contrast material needed aft ...
Purpose Positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose is widely used for post-therapeutic surveillance of ...
18F-FDG uptake on PET helps pre ...
Background Positron emission tomography (PET) with fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) has been studied in thymic epithelial tumors. We evaluat ...
Normal variants of bowel FDG up ...
Objective To evaluate the normal variants of the physiological bowel 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-glucose (FDG) uptake in dual-time-point positron emissi ...
Usefulness of the automatic qua ...
Objective AQCEL enables automatic reconstruction of single-photon emission computed tomogram (SPECT) without image degradation and quantitative anal ...
Comparison of 99mTc-labeled PR8 ...
Objective We digested anti-MUC1 monoclonal antibody PR81 to produce F(ab0)2 fragments. A comparison was performed between the two radiolabeled PR81 ...
Predictors of abnormal heart ra ...
Objective To identify predictors of abnormal HR response to dipyridamole (DIP) in patients undergoing myocardial perfusion SPECT (MPS). Background ...
Positive correlations between t ...
Purpose Cancer patients are prone to clinical malnutrition; moreover, the energy expenditure in patients with certain cancers is higher than that in ...
Yttrium-90 DOTATOC therapy in G ...
Treatment of somatostatin receptor-positive tumors with radiolabeled somatostatin analog is a promising option. Several phase I and phase II studies ...
New software for raw data mask ...
Objective Increased activity of myocardial perfusion tracer technetium-99m in liver and hepatobiliary system causes streak artifacts, which may affe ...