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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Assessment of tumor hypoxia by ...
Objective In radiotherapy and chemotherapy tumor hypoxia is recognized as a major obstacle to effective treatment. We undertook a pilot study in pat ...
Long-term prognostic stratifica ...
Objective 123I-metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) scintigraphy is a useful tool for predicting the prognosis in patients with congestive heart failure; ...
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 ...
Clinical value of FDG-PET for p ...
Objective Whole body positron emission tomography (PET) with F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) has been widely used in various malignancies, but the cli ...
Limited diagnostic and predicti ...
Objective To assess usefulness of dual-time-point 18F FDG PET/CT to differentiate malignant from benign thyroid nodules and predict the potential fa ...
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 ...
Efficacy of adding high-dose In ...
Purpose This study aimed to assess the outcome of highdose In-111 octreotide treatment and efficacy of longacting Sandostatin LAR in patients with d ...
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 ...
The usefulness of fully three-d ...
Objective This work assessed the usefulness of fully threedimensional ordered subset expectation maximization (3D-OSEM) algorithm for lymph node (LN ...
FDG-PET for the diagnosis of fe ...
Objective To evaluate the clinical value of 2-[18F]fluoro- 2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography (FDGPET) for the diagnosis of fever of unk ...
Does adding FDG-PET to MRI impr ...
Objective It is sometimes difficult to distinguish between primary central nervous system lymphomas (PCNSL) and glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). The a ...
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 ...
Clinical usefulness of a collim ...
Objective Imperfect image resolution because of finitesized collimator channels often causes a decrease in diagnostic performance in myocardial perf ...
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 significance of CT den ...
Purpose The effect of computed tomography (CT) density- based, non-uniform photon attenuation correction (AC) on lung perfusion distribution and the ...
Hepatic falciform ligament Tc-9 ...
Yttrium-90 (Y-90) selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) is increasingly used to treat inoperable hepatocellular carcinoma. We describe two pat ...
The comparison of 131I whole-bo ...
Objective The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the clinical usefulness of the delayed post-therapeutic 131I scan in patients with well-d ...
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 ...
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 ...
Semiquantitative analysis of C- ...
Objective 11C-Methionine positron emission tomography (MET-PET) has been used to distinguish brain tumor recurrence from radiation necrosis. Because ...
Differential uptake of 18F-FDG ...
18F-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography (18F-FDG PET/CT) has developed into the standard of care for investigating patients with n ...
Investigation of dose distribut ...
Objective In this study, radial dosimetric characterization for specific internal geometry of seed source was determined. In this study, the separat ...