emission tomography
Prediction of pathologic prognostic factors in patients with lung adenocarcinomas: comparison of thin-section computed tomography and positron emission tomography/computed tomography
... positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) are often used as preoperative independent variables to evaluate the invasiveness of lung ...
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First-in-class positron emission tomography tracer for the glucagon receptor
... positron emission tomography (PET) ligand [ 68 Ga]Ga-DO3A-VS-Cys 40 -Exendin-4, which enables quantitative measurements of GLP-1R occupancy in living subjects [5 – ...
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Geoscientific process monitoring with positron emission tomography (GeoPET)
... Positron emission tomography (PET) pro- vides an alternative experimental observation method which directly and quantitatively yields the spatio-temporal distri- bution of tracer ...
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Positron Emission Tomography: Principles, Technology, and Recent Developments
... Positron emission tomography (PET) is a nuclear medical imaging technique for quantitative measurement of physiologic parameters in vivo (an overview of principles and applications can be found in [1]), ...
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A review and update on positron emission tomography
... Last century witnessed the birth and growth of PET. The credit for initial steps ever travelled in this field goes to Sir Brownell 2003; Wilson, 1998). They utilised the rectilinear scanning technique to develop a ...
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The role of 18F fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography in the primary staging of rectal cancer
... computed tomography (CT), mag- netic resonance imaging (MRI), and endorectal ultrasound (ERUS) have evolved as the best modalities for accurately staging rectal ...positron emission tomography ...
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Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Imaging of a Patient with Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Prostate
... A 77-year-old man admitted to our hospital with complains of constipation and hesitancy. He had decreased urinary output and severe constipation for 5-6 months. Clinical examination revealed an enlarged and firm ...
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Orbital positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) imaging findings in graves ophthalmopathy
... Positron emission tomography (PET) is a non-invasive diagnostic method that is used in the diagnosis and staging of malignancies and is help- ful in assessing some forms of inflammation ...
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Dictionary based super resolution for positron emission tomography images
... Positron emission tomography is a non-invasive medical imaging technique. A PET tomograph detects photons that result of the annihilation of a positron and an electron [3] in the subject under study. ...
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Prostate cancer imaging: positron-emission tomography perspectives
... Abstract: There is a pressing demand for more accurate characterization of prostate cancer to provide risk-adapted patient-specific therapy, especially with the recent development of a growing repertoire of treatment ...
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Epithelioid sarcoma with muscle metastasis detected by positron emission tomography
... emission tomography (FDG-PET) detected multiple lesions with an increased uptake in the right neck, the bilateral upper arms and the right thigh, as well as in the left axillary lymph nodes, with maximum ...
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Usefulness of fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography for detection of a neuroblastic nodule in a ganglioneuroblastoma: a case report
... Case presentation: We report a case of a Japanese boy aged 3 years, 8 months, with an unresectable abdominal tumor and elevated vanillylmandelic acid and homovanillic acid levels. The initial biopsy was ganglioneuroma. ...
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Combined computed tomography and fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in the diagnosis of prosthetic valve endocarditis: a case series
... Positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT), are routinely used for the diagnosis and follow up of malignancies, based on the increased glyco- lytic rate in malignant ...computed ...
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The Value of 18 Fluorine-fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Imaging in Breast Cancer Staging
... positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT), there was no change in staging, but FDG PET/CT revealed other breast nodules at different quadrants and osseous lesion in L4 vertebra that ...
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F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/ computed tomography in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
... ABSTRACT Purpose: We evaluated the prognostic value of total lesion glycolysis TLG measured in baseline 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography 18F-FDG PE[r] ...
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Positron Emission Tomography Compartmental Models
... Compartmental analysis forms the basis for tracer kinetic modeling in Positron Emission Tomography (PET). Well established compartmental models in PET include those used for the quantification of blood flow ...
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Review Article Progress of positron emission tomography/computed tomography in the management of nasopharyngeal carcinoma
... space, perineural tumor spread, and bone mar- row involvement. Moreover, MRI can show the involvement of adjacent structures, such as paranasal sinuses. Both CT and MRI depend on the size and shape of the lesions, and ...
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Tumor Quantification in Clinical Positron Emission Tomography
... photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), positron emission tomography (PET) has much higher sensi- tivity and substantially better and more uniform spa- tial ...
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Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography (PET CT) in Head and Neck Pathology
... Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography (PET-CT) combines the power of biological / mo- lecular imaging with the anatomic detail of CT in order to provide a very sensitive and specific ...
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Imaging in breast cancer: Single photon computed tomography and positron emission tomography
... single-photon- emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron- emission tomography (PET) can provide an accurate assessment of the presence and extent of disease as well as unique ...
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