Bone SPECT
The usefulness of bone SPECT/CT imaging with volume of interest analysis in early axial spondyloarthritis
... of bone SPECT/CT with VOI analysis for early axial SpA, the early stage of the axial ...that bone SPECT/CT is advantageous over con- ventional bone scintigraphy in detecting ...CT, ...
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Does whole-body bone SPECT/CT provide additional diagnostic information over [18F]-FCH PET/CT for the detection of bone metastases in the setting of prostate cancer biochemical recurrence?
... WB bone SPECT/CT as negative, the results of Picchio et ...planar bone scintig- raphy (sensitivity, 70%; specificity, 100%) with respect to those observed in the present study using WB bone ...
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Bone SPECT-based segmented attenuation correction for quantitative analysis of bone metastasis (B-SAC): comparison with CT-based attenuation correction
... in bone SPECT A major advantage of using bone SPECT emission data for attenuation correction is that it is feasible to semi-automatically delineate bone structures which ex- hibit the ...
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Utility of bone SPECT/CT to identify the primary cause of pain in elderly patients with degenerative lumbar spine disease
... on bone SPECT/CT findings, we were able to provide less invasive surgical or conservative treatments, including selective short segment spinal fusion in three patients with degenerative discopathy and/or ...
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Prevalence and prognostic value of increased uptake in bone SPECT/CT in asymptomatic wrists
... phase bone SPECT/CT imaging in approximately one third of asymptomatic ...phase SPECT/CT bone uptake in AW showed no diagnostic or therapeutic impact during follow-up time of our ...
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The role of hybrid bone SPECT/CT imaging in the work-up of the limping patient: a symptom-based and joint-oriented review
... and bone SPECT/CT is increasingly being used as the second step imaging modal- ity if conventional X-rays are equivocal (Strobel et ...the bone-prosthesis interface – in contrast to uptake in the ...
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Does quantification have a role to play in the future of bone SPECT?
... Numerical results of quantitative imaging are intrinsically linked to image quality (Buchbender et al. 2013). In PET, it is known that quantitative results can suffer from unexpected but understood effects (‘artefacts’), ...
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Bone SPECT/CT imaging of a liposclerosing myxofibroid tumor in an unexpected localization
... Case presentation: A 69-year old, male patient with moderate pain in his posterior pelvic region was diagnosed with an unclear tumor of the iliac bone. Conventional radiographs, computed tomography (CT), and MRI ...
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Studying the specificity of bone SPECT for differentiating malignant from benign lesions in the vertebral column of the patients with a known primary malignancy [Persian]
... Podoloff DA. Value of SPECT imaging of the thoracolumbar spine in cancer patients. Comparison of MRI and bone scintigraphy in the evaluation of osseous spine metast[r] ...
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Quantitative bone SPECT/CT: high specificity for identification of prostate cancer bone metastases
... The main limitations of our study are the small subject population and the lack of histological confirmation for all prostate cancer bone metastases. However, as authors re- ported that histological confirmation ...
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Quantitative SPECT: the time is now
... of bone SPECT, it has been found that different components of the skeleton have very different normal values even before factoring in demographic in- formation such as age, gender, weight, and height ...
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Three-minute SPECT/CT is sufficient for the assessment of bone metastasis as add-on to planar bone scintigraphy: prospective head-to-head comparison to 11-min SPECT/CT
... half-time SPECT in pediatric patients undergoing ...half-time SPECT [22]. Thientunyakit et al. investigated the use of half-time SPECT (no CT) compared to multiplanar imaging of ...
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Skeletal standardized uptake values obtained by quantitative SPECT/CT as an osteoblastic biomarker for the discrimination of active bone metastasis in prostate cancer
... quantitative bone SPECT/CT co- registered/hybrid imaging was performed using a SPECT/CT scanner (Symbia Intevo, Siemens Healthcare ...images, SPECT/CT scanning was performed using the ...
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SPECT/CT bone scintigraphy to evaluate low back pain in young athletes: common and uncommon etiologies
... Lumbosacral transitional vertebrae syndrome (Bertolotti syndrome) is defined as either sacralization of the lowest lumbar segment or lumbarization of the most superior sacral segment of the spine. It is present in 3–21 % ...
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Incremental diagnostic utility of systematic double-bed SPECT/CT for bone scintigraphy in initial staging of cancer patients
... single-bed SPECT/CT), 2, 2 and 5 (1 equivocal lesion becoming suspicious for these last 3 pa- ...double-bed SPECT/CT may also better evaluate the therapeutic response to chemotherapy, hormonotherapy or ...
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Menstrual migraine and SPECT
... Further studies investigating cerebral blood flow, also involving attacks not associated with mestruation, should be carried out in this regard. This should allow us to discriminate whether a different pattern of ...
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Patient-specific image-based bone marrow dosimetry in Lu-177-[DOTA0,Tyr3]-Octreotate and Lu-177-DKFZ-PSMA-617 therapy: investigation of a new hybrid image approach
... active bone marrow (BM) represents a main organ at risk in radionuclide therapy [4–8] .... Bone marrow toxicity is particularly of concern in Lu-177- PSMA-617 therapy, as patients suffering from mCRPC often ...
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Practice developments and educational requirements in hybrid imaging
... • Initial Hybrid SPECT/ CT systems provided AC / nondiagnostic images localisation • Role of hybrid SPECT/CT systems has evolved • Possible to undertake diagnostic CT on all modern SPECT[r] ...
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Development of clinical simultaneous SPECT/MRI
... of SPECT/MRI can be ...integrated SPECT/MRI system is the design of a compact gamma detection module which exhibits mutual com- patibility with commercial MRI ...
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A new SPECT/CT reconstruction algorithm: reliability and accuracy in clinical routine for non-oncologic bone diseases
... all bone scans were independently inter- preted by two nuclear medicine physicians (one senior physician (experience of 15 years) and one junior phys- ician (experience of 3 years)) with the xB/CT recon- struction ...
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