Present and future of FDG-PET/C ...
Integrated FDG-PET/CT has been used successfully for the diagnosis, staging, restaging, therapy monitoring and prognostic prediction of ovarian canc ...
Evaluation of 99mTc-labeled ant ...
One of the fields of research in nuclear medicine is the development of new radiopharmaceuticals for imaging infection and inflammation in humans. F ...
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 ...
GMP production of [18F]FDOPA an ...
Introduction Lately, 6-[18F]fluoro-L-DOPA (FDOPA) has found increase in its clinical demand for whole-body positron emission tomography (PET) scans, ...
Clinical usefulness of combinat ...
Background This study was designed to assess the value of a combinatorial protocol, namely, stress only myocardial perfusion SPECT (MPS), 64-slice c ...
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 ...
Effect of dialysis on cerebral ...
Objective The aim of this study was to investigate regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) changes of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients with depre ...
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 ...
Radiosynovectomy using yttrium- ...
Background Radiosynovectomy (RSO) is widely used in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Commercially available radiopharmaceuticals are costly, and therefore ...
Validation of reference tissue ...
Objective [11C]Flumazenil ([11C]FMZ) positron emission tomography (PET) can be used as a measure of neuronal loss. The purpose of this study was to ...
Predictors of abnormal heart ra ...
Objective To identify predictors of abnormal HR response to dipyridamole (DIP) in patients undergoing myocardial perfusion SPECT (MPS). Background ...
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 ...
Usefulness of the automatic qua ...
Objective AQCEL enables automatic reconstruction of single-photon emission computed tomogram (SPECT) without image degradation and quantitative anal ...
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 ...
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 ...
Esophageal transit study using ...
Purpose Esophageal complication is common in systemic sclerosis (SSc), but scintigraphic transit patterns based on each subtype have not been unders ...
Evaluation of outcome predictio ...
Objective The objective of this study is to determine whether 2-deoxy-2-[18F] fluoro-D-glucose with positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) imaging a ...
Is contrast material needed aft ...
Purpose Positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose is widely used for post-therapeutic surveillance of ...
Determination of the survival r ...
Background The goals of this meta-analysis were to determine survival rates in patients with heart failure (HF) assessed by 123I-MIBG imaging result ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
First automatic radiosynthesis ...
Objective Telmisartan, a nonpeptide angiotensin II AT1 receptor antagonist, is an antihypertensive drug. Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging ...
Phase I clinical study of NMK36 ...
Objective NMK36 is a novel PET tracer containing a synthetic amino acid analogue anti-[18F]FACBC as the active ingredient, and is under development ...
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 ...