[PDF] Top 20 PET/CT versus body coil PET/MRI: how low can you go?

... of PET/CT and PET/MRI scans were done independently and blinded to the results of the other ...the PET/CT exams and the PET/MRI exams were evaluated for the ... See full document

... disproportionately low counts towards the patient’s centre and seemingly “hot” lungs (since the lungs are mostly air and do not interact with many ...scatter can easily exceed the number of trues in ... See full document

... A low size threshold provides higher sensitivity with low specificity and a higher size threshold lowers the sensitivity but improves specificity (Kau et ...alone, MRI is no different (Sohn et al., ... See full document

... as low-grade, and grade II and III sarcoma as high-grade. All imaging (MRI, CT and PET–CT) were performed as directed either by the MDT, or were performed just prior to referral by an ... See full document

... none can definitively confirm the presence or absence of infection (Pineda et ...oedema can be imaged distinctively using magnetic resonance imaging ...reason, MRI is today considered of additional ... See full document

... Only patients with head and neck cancer 18 years or older who were referred by their physicians for clinical PET/CT were eligible for the study. All consecutive patients who gave written informed consent ... See full document

... non-TOF PET and 1–3 months later TOF PET and were blinded to any other infor- mation than the patient bodyweight and injected dose (necessarily needed for the SUV ... See full document

... specific MRI, which may be acquired at the same time as the PET, to create a patient specific ...technique can provide distinct density information for lung and bone tissues, these values are not ... See full document

... bined PET/CT system (Discovery RX or Discovery STE, GE Healthcare, Milwaukee, WI, ...a PET scanner and a multi-slice helical CT scanner (16 or 64 slices) permitting the acquisition of ... See full document

... 18F-CH PET/CT had positive radiological findings. This can be attributed to various factors, as follows: pre- imaging PSA values were relatively high in the entire co- hort, the time to biochemical ... See full document

... for lesion detection were calculated with Cohen’s kappa statistic, defined as poor ( κ#0.4), moderate (0.4,κ#0.6), good (0.6,κ#0.8), and excellent (0.8,κ#1) agreement. To access the diagnostic accuracy of initial ... See full document

... brain PET study cannot simply be translated to other PET tracers or to other body regions without fur- ther ...neurological PET studies in general ...that can provide accurate skull ... See full document

... years, PET/CT has become a cornerstone in oncological ...the PET camera offers a higher spatial resolution than the gamma camera (Hicks and Hofman ... See full document

... FDG PET/CT in patients with malignant lymphoma as compared to separately performed PET and CT, showed that PET was superior to CT ...between PET/CT and separate ... See full document

... in PET/CT systems, for sphere sizes smaller than 10 mm in an experimental ...NEMA body phantom with sphere diameters of 4 to 37 mm and a sphere-to-background ratio of 8:1 and detected hot spheres ... See full document

... For PET images obtained on PET/MRI system, we used OP-OSEM3D+PSF reconstructed algorithm with three iterations and 21 subsets (3i21s) and 5-mm Gaussian post-reconstruction ...i.e., ... See full document

... major body systems (plus height and weight), including vital signs, ECG (12-lead) and blood as well as urine samples was ...a PET/CT system (Biograph16, SIEMENS, Erlangen, Germany) after ... See full document

... tissue can be found throughout the body since it is a zinc-dependent exopeptidase with glutamate carboxypeptidase activity ...detection can be challenging, as up to ... See full document

... Primary malignant tumours of the vertebral column are rare. Whenever, an isolated vertebral lesion is noted radiographically a systemic examination for other lesions should be done, preferably radionuclide scintigraphy. ... See full document

... Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 17.0 software (SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL, USA) was used for the statistical analysis. Unpaired two-tailed t-test was used to analyze the difference between groups. The data ... See full document