whole-body PET scan
Case report : pineal metastasis from lung cancer
... 18-FDG Whole body PET scan showed increase FDG uptake in multiple areas including the pineal area (SUVmax 9.4), soft tissue mass in the right hilar (SUVmax 10.8), several enlarged lymph nodes ...
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Assessment of population-based input functions for Patlak imaging of whole body dynamic 18 F-FDG PET
... FDG plasma concentration. This scaling approach has potential advantages since it does not require the IDIF for scaling and thus has a short scan and is not subject to ef- fects of body motion and partial ...
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Sensitivity of 18F-fluorodihydrotestosterone PET-CT to count statistics and reconstruction protocol in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer
... oncologic PET tracers and their imaging protocols are patient burden and cost of ...now, whole body [ 18 F]FDHT PET/CT studies have been acquired at 3 – 4 min per bed position, resulting in a ...
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Impact of Integrated Whole Body 68Ga PET/MR Imaging in Comparison with 68Ga PET/CT in Lesions Detection and Diagnosis of Suspected Neuroendocrine Tumours
... underwent whole-body PET/CT (Discovery VCT; GE Healthcare, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, ...CT scan was acquired for attenuation correction at 120 keV and mA modulation was employed (smart 30-300 mA, ...
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Impact of PET acquisition durations on image quality and lesion detectability in whole-body 68Ga-PSMA PET-MRI
... processing. Whole-body list mode PET data were reconstructed using the offline sorting and reconstruction programs included in the e7 toolbox (Siemens Healthineers, Erlangen, Germany; ver- sion ...
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Monitoring scanner calibration using the image-derived arterial blood SUV in whole-body FDG-PET
... As with any other physiological parameters (e.g., blood glucose level, blood pressure), BSUV follows a certain unknown distribution function in the total population. For any representative sample drawn from the ...
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Cell therapy for ARDS: efficacy of endobronchial versus intravenous administration and biodistribution of MAPCs in a large animal model
... a whole- body PET/ CT scan was obtained using a Biograph mCT Flow PET/ CT scanner (Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Malvern, Pennsylvania, ...shoot’ PET acquisition was employed ...
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18F-florbetaben whole-body PET/MRI for evaluation of systemic amyloid deposition
... SIGNA PET/MRI. This was followed by a whole-body PET/ MRI scan 60 – ...imaging. Whole-body MRI sequences included MRAC and axial T1-weighted ...
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Prevalence and patterns of soft tissue metastasis: detection with true whole-body F-18 FDG PET/CT
... A decision whether a TWB scanning should be used in cancer patients depends on the overall prevalence of dis- tant metastasis outside the LWB FOV which is not limited to ST metastasis alone. The added value of TWB ...
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Effects of ferumoxytol on quantitative PET measurements in simultaneous PET/MR whole-body imaging: a pilot study in a baboon model
... (MRAC) scan: T1-weighted (T1W) two- point Dixon 3D volumetric interpolated breath-hold examination (VIBE) sequence with the following parameters: integrated parallel acquisition technique (iPAT) GRAPPA factor 2, ...
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Optimized dose regimen for whole-body FDG-PET imaging
... patient’s body mass and the administered dose, resulting in a constant activity concentration in the patient (or math- ematical phantom), as currently recommended by the EANM guidelines for quantitative FDG ...
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Interobserver variability of image-derived arterial blood SUV in whole-body FDG PET
... All patient underwent a 18 F-FDG hybrid PET/CT scan performed with a Biograph 16, Siemens Medical Solu- tions Inc., Knoxville, TN, USA (3D acquisition, 3-min emission per bed position). Data acquisition ...
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Chelator-Free Radiolabeling of SERRS Nanoparticles for Whole-Body PET and Intraoperative Raman Imaging
... and PET and Cerenkov scans were obtained 3 h post-injection ...The PET signal exhibited several distinct filling defects throughout the liver, as hypothesized, suggesting the presence of ...the PET ...
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Case Report Case report of a huge primary malignant melanoma of the spine
... CT scan, abdominal and pelvic ultrasound examination, and PET/CT were recommended to determine the nature of the primary, or metastatic, malignant ...
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A paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis from an anorectal small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma: a case report
... F-FDG PET scan showed an abnormal hypermetabolism of the posterior surface of the right prostate ...F-FDG PET scan found the abnormal ...
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Heterogeneous bone marrow uptake on interim 18F fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography for lymphoma mimicking disease progression: a case report
... neural foramen. Heterogeneous increased FDG uptake was also seen in a right external iliac node and throughout the skeleton, most marked and intense in the trochanteric region of the right femur and right ilium, ...
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Incremental value of PET and MRI in the evaluation of cardiovascular abnormalities
... the PET not work- ing with strong magnetic fields, PET detectors producing mag- netic field heterogeneities, and MRI surface coils causing un- wanted attenuation interfering with gamma ...the PET ...
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A prospective study determining and comparing the diagnostic accuracy of fluoride-PET/CT, choline-PET/CT, whole-body bone SPECT/CT and whole-body MRI for the detection of bone metastases in patients with prostate cancer
... years, PET/CT has become a cornerstone in oncological ...the PET camera offers a higher spatial resolution than the gamma camera (Hicks and Hofman ...
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High Degree Atrioventricular Block Complicated Cardiac Sarcoidosis: Case Report
... cated multiple foci of increased uptake on mediastinum and axillae, highly sus- picious to Sarcoidosis with Cardiac Involvement (Figure 3—Gallium PET scan showed multiple foci of increased uptake on ...
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An Investigation of the Required MR Bone Attenuation Correction for Quantitative Whole Body PET/MR Imaging Using Clinical NaF PET/CT Studies
... human body are “voxelized” during a tomo- graphic imaging study, most “soft tissue voxels” are homogeneous voxels that contain only soft tissues, whereas a substantial proportion of the “bone voxels” are, in fact, ...
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