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Life-threatening giant esophageal neurofibroma with severe tracheal stenosis: a case report
... computed tomography scan exhibited a giant mediastinal tumor causing severe tracheal ...(FDG)-positron emission tomography image revealed an upper mediastinal homogeneous mass and left ...
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Vascular reserve in chronic cerebral ischemia measured by the acetazolamide challenge test: comparison with positron emission tomography
... by positron emission tomography. We performed both a positron emission tomographic scan and a Xe CT study in 11 patients with chronic cerebral ischemic diseases within a 1-week ...by ...
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Assessment of Maximum A Posteriori Image Estimation Algorithms for Reduced Acquisition Time Medical Positron Emission Tomography Data
... Positron emission tomography (PET) is a non-invasive imaging technique used in the clinical setting for routine diagnosis, dose delivery and treatment response ...setting. Positron ...
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Geoscientific process monitoring with positron emission tomography (GeoPET)
... The radiation is usually detected in detector crystals that are mounted on multichannel photomultipliers. The detection probability depends on the crystal parameters, is rather small, and is also strongly reduced by ...
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Generalized Fourier Transforms, Inverse Problems, and Integrability in 4+2
... Computerized Tomography as well as of Positron Emission Tomography, whereas the attenuated Radon transform provides the mathematical foun- dation of Single Photon Emission Computerized ...
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Positron Emission Tomography: A paradigm in imaging sciences
... Two equal energy (511-keV) annihilation rays traveling in opposite directions, corresponding to equal-magnitude, opposite-sign (positive and negative) momentum are emitted. Only when signals from the two coincidence ...
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Tumor Quantification in Clinical Positron Emission Tomography
... to image blur- ring in the thorax and upper ...CT image provides anatomical context and is used for PET attenuation ...PET image values depend on the respiratory phase during which the CT scan is ...
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The role of positron emission tomography in the management of colorectal cancer
... each image “slice” the system must stop, rotate back before proceeding to the next slice of ...resultant image is not a “shadow” image o f the structure under investigation in one plane, but a map of ...
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Lhermitte Duclos disease presenting with positron emission tomography magnetic resonance fusion imaging: a case report
... A 37-year-old Caucasian woman came to our depart- ment to undergo a total-body PET-computed tomogra- phy (PET/CT) with F18-FDG for evaluation of a solitary lung node. Her family history was unremarkable. During clinical ...
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A review and update on positron emission tomography
... The past couple of years have witnessed significant advances in the PET scanning.The incorporation of fast scintillators and incorporation of CT has boosted its growth potential (Humm et al., 2003). PET BLOCK DETECTORS ...
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Positron Emission Tomography Imaging of Atherosclerosis
... Natriuretic peptides (NPs) have potent antipro- liferative and antimigratory effects on vascular smooth-muscle cells and participate in vascular re- modeling in atherosclerosis. The expression of NPCRs is upregulated ...
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Prostate cancer imaging: positron-emission tomography perspectives
... provide image-guided therapy and facilitate treatment ...future positron emission tomography-based radiotracers at different clinical and preclinical stages of ...
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PET in uterine malignancies
... Positron Emission Tomography (PET) or inte- grated PET/Computed Tomography (PET/CT) with 18 F-Fluoro-Deoxy-Glucose ( 18 F-FDG) is a fu- nctional imaging modality, useful in the char- ...
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Comparison of CT and PET-CT based planning of radiation therapy in locally advanced pancreatic carcinoma
... computerized tomography (CT), which is the current standard imaging modality for planning three-dimensional conformal RT (3D-CRT), has a relatively low sensitivity and specificity in determining the extent of ...
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Stenosis of the Subglottic Trachea Revealing Relapsing Polychondritis of a Young Adult
... fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography for early diagnosis and evaluation of disease activity of RP was reported by Yamashita et ...
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Simultaneous characterization of tumor cellularity and the Warburg effect with PET, MRI and hyperpolarized 13C-MRSI
... AUC). In addition, quantitative LDH measures (Figure 4) were further underestimated due to partial volumes and point spread function artifacts [49], in particular for the pyruvate signal in the vena cava, likewise caused ...
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A solid pseudopapillary neoplasm without cysts that occurred in a patient diagnosed by endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration: a case report
... A 24-year-old Japanese man was referred to our hospital after a medical check-up revealed mild transaminase elevations. He had no symptoms. He was found to have mild fatty liver and a pancreatic mass by con- ...
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Collaborative and secure transmission of medical data applied to mobile healthcare
... mHealth: mobile healthcare; OppNets: opportunistic networks; CT: computed tomography; PET-CT: positron emission tomography/computed tomography; TAFC-M: multipath transmission algorithm [r] ...
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131I-Labeled Copper Sulfide-Loaded Microspheres to Treat Hepatic Tumors via Hepatic Artery Embolization
... PET/CT: positron emission tomography/computed tomography; RFA: radiofrequency ablation; TACE: transarterial chemoembolization; PEI: percutaneous ethanol injection; IA: intra-arterial; DEB: ...
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Altered cerebral glucose metabolism normalized in a patient with a pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorder after streptococcal infection (PANDAS)-like condition following treatment with plasmapheresis: a case report
... with PANDAS are mainly restricted to magnetic reson- ance imaging (MRI) describing increased volumes of the basal ganglia. [8, 9] One study could demonstrate in- creased microglia-mediated neuroinflammation in the basal ...
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