Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
Incidentally detected thyroid papillary carcinoma on positron emission tomography in a patient with malignant melanoma
... Focal or diffusely increased 18F-luorodeoxyglucose (18FDG) uptake in thyroid gland are occasionally seen during 18FDG positron emission tomography (PET) scan- ning. Increased 18FDG uptake in thyroid ...
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Dose Absorbed by Technologists in Positron Emission Tomography Procedures with FDG
... The objective of this work was to evaluate radiation doses delivered to technologists engaged in different tasks involving positron emission tomography (PET) studies with FDG (fluorodeoxyglucose). ...
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Study of LAT1 Expression in Brain Metastases: Towards a Better Understanding of the Results of Positron Emission Tomography Using Amino Acid Tracers.
... Positron emission tomography using radiolabeled amino acid (PET-AA) appears to be promising in distinguishing between recurrent tumour and radionecrosis in the follow-up of brain metastasis ...
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Differential Diagnosis of Adrenal Mass Using Imaging Modality: Special Emphasis on F-18 Fluoro-2-Deoxy-D-Glucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography
... fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography (FDG PET)/computed tomography (CT) and I-131 metaiodobenzylgua- nidine (MIBG) ...
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Detection of synchronous cancers by fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography during primary staging workup for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in Taiwan.
... Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/ computed tomography (FDG-PET/CT) has better sensitivity than conventional workup in the detection of distant metastases in esophageal cancer ...
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Dynamic positron emission tomography image restoration via a kinetics-induced bilateral filter.
... Dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) is a powerful tool that provides useful quantitative information on physiological and biochemical processes ...
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Positron emission tomography in the detection of occult primary head and neck carcinoma
... Positron emission tomography (PET) is a functional image modality that characterizes the different tissues of the body according to perfusion and metabolic ...
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Alcohol ADME in primates studied with positron emission tomography.
... with positron emission tomography (PET) and O-15 water (marker of blood flow) and C-11 ethanol suggested that ethanol’s distribution in brain was in part mediated by interactions with GABA and/or ...
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New computer-aided diagnosis of dementia using positron emission tomography: brain regional sensitivity-mapping method.
... We used an SHR-12000 Brain PET camera (Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.) with intrinsic resolution, 2.962.963.4 mm full- width half-maximum (FWHM), 47 slices obtained simultaneously, and 163 mm axial field of view [27]. After ...
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Background-Based Delineation of Internal Tumor Volumes on Static Positron Emission Tomography in a Phantom Study
... Table 1.. The impact of distance and the acquisition model on volume recovery coefficients of lung tumor models: A) 2D-PET data acquisition, B) 3D-PET data acquisition ([r] ...
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Positron Emission Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain in Fabry Disease: A Nationwide, Long-Time, Prospective Follow-Up.
... The distribution of the relative regional cerebral glucose metabolic rate (rCMRglc) was mea- sured using F-18 FDG-PET-scanning. PET scans were performed with an eighteen-ring GE-Advance scanner (General Electric Medical ...
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Comparative Oncology: Evaluation of 2-Deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-glucose (FDG) Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (PET/CT) for the Staging of Dogs with Malignant Tumors.
... FDG PET/CT scans were acquired on a Biograph Sensation 64 PET/CT scanner (Siemens Healthcare). All patients obtained a dedicated CT scan (120 kV, 180 mAs care dose, 0.5 s per rotation, 5-mm slice thickness, portal venous ...
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Obsessive compulsive disorder networks: positron emission tomography and neuropsychology provide new insights.
... PET measurements were performed using a dedicated Discovery ST PET scanner (GEMS, Milwaukee, USA) in 2D mode with an axial field of view (FOV) of 15.2 cm and axial resolution of 3.91 mm. A 222–296 MBq injection of 18 ...
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Radiol Bras vol.40 número5 en a13v40n5
... Radio- therapy treatment planning for patients with non- small cell lung cancer using positron emission tomography (PET). Black QC, Grills IS, Kestin LL, et al[r] ...
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Clinics vol.71 número3
... Considering neuroimaging studies of the effect of choral speech on stuttered speech, a positron emission tomography (PET) study (25) of adults who stutter using both oral reading and mon[r] ...
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The Role of Nuclear Medicine in The Diagnosis and Management of Solitary Pulmonary Nodules
... including positron emission tomography (PET) using 18-F-FDG, and 11-C-Methionine, and single photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT) using somatostatin receptor scintigraphy, ...
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Dement. neuropsychol. vol.3 número3
... employed positron emission tomography (PET) with statistical parametric mapping to evaluate the differences between illiterates and non-illiterates on verbal tasks, and concluded that the functional ...
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C-Pittsburgh compound B uptake in Alzheimer’s disease: a voxel-based investigation of cortical and white matter regions
... typical positron emission tomography (PET) findings supporting the diag- nosis of AD include decreased regional brain glucose meta- bolism, affecting mainly the temporoparietal and posterior ...
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Arq. Bras. Cardiol. vol.86 número1 en a08v86n1
... single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) using Tc-99m showed hypoperfusion in the left parietal and occipital regions (Figure 2A); positron emission tomography with fl uorine- ...
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DE-BLURRING SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES USING WAVELET DECOMPOSITION
... photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET) are popular nuclear medicine imaging techniques that find extensive application in imaging cardiac ...
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