99mTc-GSA SPECT analysis was cl ...
We describe a 62-year-old woman with advanced chronic hepatitis C who showed no response to low-dose long-term interferon-beta monotherapy (3 MU, t ...
Clinical implications of the bo ...
ttrium-90 (Y-90) radioembolization is becoming established as an effective therapeutic modality for inoperable liver tumors. For resin microspheres, ...
Myocardial washout rate of tech ...
Objective This study aimed to clarify the correlation between the myocardial washout rate (WR) of technetium- 99mhexakis 2-methoxy-isobutyl-isonitri ...
Impact of chronic kidney diseas ...
Background Stress myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) is an established means of predicting cardiovascular events and is suitable in chronic kidney d ...
Prediction of lack of response ...
The authors report a case of a 47-year-old female with a malignant lump in the right breast and ipsilateral axillary nodal involvement. She was path ...
Quantification of [18F]-FDG upt ...
Objective Impaired renal function causes both increased and prolonged tracer availability in the blood-pool which might result in increased tracer a ...
Usefulness of Tc-99m-GSA scinti ...
Postoperative mortality remains high after hepatectomy compared with other types of surgery in patients who have cirrhosis or chronic hepatitis. Alt ...
Radiation exposure and risk–ben ...
Objective The aim of this study was to estimate radiation exposure and evaluate the risks and benefits of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission t ...
Could the serial determination ...
Objectives A single value of tumor marker elevation is not used for the diagnosis of breast cancer (BC) relapse, whereas the serial measurements whi ...
Relationship between 18F-FDG up ...
Background Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging with 2-[18F]-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (18F-FDG) has a false-positive result in benign pulmonar ...
Evaluation of organ-specific gl ...
Objective Insulin resistance (IR) is a physiological condition in which the body produces insulin but does not result in a sufficient biological eff ...
Double-phase 131I whole body sc ...
Objective This study aims to determine whether a 131I double-phase whole body scan (WBS) and SPECT-CT images have added value over a single-phase WB ...
Comparison of parameters of 123 ...
Objectives The purpose of this study was to estimate the diagnostic accuracy of 123I-metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) scintigraphy to diagnose Lewy bo ...
Evaluation of lung epithelial p ...
Aim Chronic inhalant use is associated with significant toxic effects, including neurological, renal, hepatic, and pulmonary damage. However, there ...
The molecular imaging approach ...
Inflammatory and infectious diseases are a heterogeneous class of diseases that may be divided into infections, acute inflammation and chronic infla ...
Novel algorithm for quantitativ ...
Objectives Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is the established treatment for patients with chronic and severe heart failure, and it has been ...
Additional value of FDG PET/CT ...
Objectives This study aimed at determining the additional value of FDG PET/CT to contrast-enhanced CT in the differentiation between benign and mali ...
Preoperative nodal staging of u ...
Objective To determine whether contrast-enhanced PET/ CT is more accurate than either non-enhanced PET/CT or enhanced CT alone for nodal staging of ...
Coronary spasm after completion ...
Adenosine is a frequently used pharmacologic stress agent in myocardial perfusion imaging. Its safety profile is well established, and most of its s ...
Demonstrations of AIDS-associat ...
HIV infection results in profound alterations of immunologic function that render the patient severely immunocompromised, and susceptible to maligna ...
Accelerated BMIPP uptake immedi ...
Objective 123I-beta-methyl iodophenyl pentadecanoic acid (BMIPP) can visualize myocardial fatty acid metabolism and has extensive potential for diag ...
Accumulation of F-18 FDG in the ...
Echinococcosis is endemic in certain parts of the world, including Turkey. When the pulmonary cyst has characteristic features, it can be easily dia ...
The impact of adenosine pharmac ...
Background The combination of adenosine infusion with low-level exercise has become a common approach for inducing stress during stress myocardial p ...
A case of diffuse-type primary ...
Primary hepatic lymphoma (PHL) is a very rare disease, especially in the diffuse type. We report a case of a middle-aged man with hepatitis C virus ...
18F-FDG PET/CT in inflammatory ...
Inflammatory pseudotumor is a rare benign lesion mimicking malignancy both clinically and radiologically. An accurate diagnosis is still difficult a ...