FDG-PET
18 F Fdg Pet, Pet/Ct And Mdct In Locally Advanced Colorectal Cancer
... Both FDG-PET and FDG-PET/CT correctly identified all the lesions, with FDG-PET/CT showing a100% accuracy in cancer localisation, as already reported by others (Kantorova et ...by ...
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[18F]FDG-PET/CT texture analysis in thyroid incidentalomas: preliminary results
... (HF) obtained from the derivative (dV/dT) of a volume-threshold function – a first order statistical-based approach. The authors found that HF represented a promising method for prediction of malignant thyroid nodule in ...
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The Specificity of a Diagnostic FDG PET Study Is a Function of the Patient and the Location
... by FDG PET and 2) that while one can posit that the sensitivity of the tracer de- pends on the avidity for glucose and the plasma supply of the target, even so that the targeting cannot influence the ...
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Usefulness of Choline-PET for the detection of residual hemangiopericytoma in the skull base: comparison with FDG-PET
... used PET tracer and FDG-PET offers the most effective- ness for imaging various ...because FDG uptake in the brain is very ...new PET tracer. Here we report the effectiveness of this ...
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Detection of primary sites in unknown primary tumors using FDG PET or FDG PET/CT
... (18F-FDG PET) or PET/CT scans according to the following ...The PET was performed on a dedicated PET scanner with a 5-min emission acquisition per ima- ging ...the PET/CT. ...
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In myotonic dystrophy type 1 reduced FDG-uptake on FDG-PET is most severe in Brodmann area 8
... Ethical approval was not needed for our study, since the ethics committee of CHU Nîmes (France) considered the FDG-PET scan as a standard procedure in DM1, if informed consent was given by the patients. All ...
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FDG-PET value in deep endometriosis
... elevated FDG uptake in ...false-positive FDG-PET results [11]. Fenchel et al. observed elevated FDG uptake in five of 23 endometriomas ...and FDG uptake in the right paravesical area, ...
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FDG PET in the evaluation of response to nivolumab in recurrent non small cell lung cancer
... increased FDG uptake at sites of local inflammatory changes caused by the recruitment of neu- trophils, lymphocytes, and macrophages ...whose PET scan showed decreased FDG uptake after treatment in ...
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The rim sign: FDG-PET/CT pattern of pulmonary infarction
... consecutive FDG-PET/CT studies of 400 patients referred for thoracic oncological workup from November 2010 to July ...on FDG- PET/CT as the association of (1) a continuous slight FDG ...
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Texture analysis of pretreatment [18F]FDG PET/CT for the prognostic prediction of locally advanced salivary gland carcinoma treated with interstitial brachytherapy
... whole-body PET/CT scan (scanned from vertex to mid-thigh) in the supine position using a Philips Gemini TF16 PET/CT scanner (Philips Medical Systems, Cleveland, OH, USA) with an active axial field of view ...
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F-FDG PET/
... nation within two weeks before operation but without receiving any anti-tumor treatment before operation. The metabolic parameters of primary lesions and postoperative pathological lymph node metastasis of esophageal ...
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Qualitative and Quantitative Performance of 18F FDG PET/MRI versus 18F FDG PET/CT in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer
... lesions in PET/MR imaging versus PET/CT were found. In the quantitative analysis part, we evaluated SUV correlation per type of lesion (primary tumor or lymph node or distant metastases) and per anatomic ...
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Is fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography useful for the thyroid nodules with indeterminate fine needle aspiration biopsy? a meta-analysis of the literature
... F-FDG) PET can detect a wide variety of tumor sites ...of PET in assessing cytological indeterminate nodules ...F-FDG PET or PET/CT in predicting the correct diag- nosis of ...
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Differentiation of sarcoidosis-lymphoma syndrome lesions: a case report on the use of two different positron emission tomography tracers
... ring-form FDG uptakes at maximum standard uptake values (SUVmax) of ...Chest PET/CT findings showed irregular thickening of the bronchovascular bundles, central peribronchial shaggy consolidations in the ...
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Choline PET and PET/CT in Primary Diagnosis and Staging of Prostate Cancer
... that FDG uptake was higher in andro- gen-independent than androgen-sensitive human prostate cancer xenografts and androgen ablation caused a significant decrease in tumor FDG uptake of about 55% [50], ...
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18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography for tuberculosis diagnosis and management: a case series
... Diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) can be challenging in pa- tients without growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum or in patients with atypical extrapulmonary presentations. Tuberculin skin tests (TST) or serum ...
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18F-FDG and 68Ga-somatostatin analogs PET/CT in patients with Merkel cell carcinoma: a comparison study
... F-FDG PET/CT may be preferred to CT [17]. Moreover, 18 F-FDG PET/CT is suggested as a routine imaging study during follow-up, as clinically indicated [16, ...for PET imaging in MCC have ...
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The role of 18F FDG uptake features in the differential diagnosis of solitary pulmonary lesions with PET/CT
... F-FDG PET scan can distinguish the benign and malignant lesions depending on the uptake value of FDG. In a meta-analysis, Gould et al. found a sensitivity of 94 % and a specificity of 86 % in ...
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Impact of attenuation correction on clinical [18F]FDG brain PET in combined PET/MRI
... average PET signal in PET/MRI due to the omission of cortical bone for several tracers, ranging from 11 to 12 % [3, 4] up to 19 to 25 % [5, ...(FDG) PET, cortical hypo- metabolism may be ...
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2-[18 F]fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose (FDG) positron-emission tomography (PET) findings of chronic expanding intrapericardial hematoma: a potential interpretive pitfall that mimics a malignant tumor
... of FDG-PET imaging for tumor diagnosis is limited by the fact that FDG, a glu- cose analog, is taken up not only by tumor cells but also by macrophages and tissue with granulation and inflam- mation ...
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