Brain FDG PET and the diagnosis of dementia

VKN Shivamurthy, AK Tahari… - American Journal of …, 2015 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. We review the role of brain FDG PET in the diagnosis of Alzheimer disease,
frontotemporal dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, and vascular dementia. Characteristic …

Dynamic whole-body PET parametric imaging: I. Concept, acquisition protocol optimization and clinical application

NA Karakatsanis, MA Lodge, AK Tahari… - Physics in Medicine …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Static whole-body PET/CT, employing the standardized uptake value (SUV), is considered
the standard clinical approach to diagnosis and treatment response monitoring for a wide …

Head and neck PET/CT: therapy response interpretation criteria (Hopkins criteria)—interreader reliability, accuracy, and survival outcomes

C Marcus, A Ciarallo, AK Tahari, E Mena… - Journal of nuclear …, 2014 - Soc Nuclear Med
There has been no established qualitative system of interpretation for therapy response
assessment using PET/CT for head and neck cancers. The objective of this study was to validate …

Optimum lean body formulation for correction of standardized uptake value in PET imaging

AK Tahari, D Chien, JR Azadi… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2014 - Soc Nuclear Med
Standardized uptake value (SUV) normalized by lean body mass ([LBM] SUL) is becoming
a popular metric for quantitative assessment of clinical PET. Sex-specific quantitative effects …

FDG PET/CT imaging of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma: characteristics of human papillomavirus–positive and–negative tumors

AK Tahari, KC Alluri, H Quon, W Koch… - Clinical nuclear …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Objective The objective of this study was to assess differences in morphological and
glycolytic characteristics of primary tumors and locoregional nodal disease between human …

PET/CT imaging and human papilloma virus–positive oropharyngeal squamous cell cancer: evolving clinical imaging paradigm

RM Subramaniam, KC Alluri, AK Tahari… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2014 - Soc Nuclear Med
Human papillomavirus (HPV)–positive oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC)
represents an emerging disease that differs from HPV-negative OPSCC in natural history and …

Absolute myocardial flow quantification with 82Rb PET/CT: comparison of different software packages and methods

AK Tahari, A Lee, M Rajaram, K Fukushima… - European journal of …, 2014 - Springer
Purpose In clinical cardiac 82 Rb PET, globally impaired coronary flow reserve (CFR) is a
relevant marker for predicting short-term cardiovascular events. However, there are limited …

Prognostic value of FDG PET metabolic tumor volume in human papillomavirus–positive stage III and IV oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma

KC Alluri, AK Tahari, RL Wahl, W Koch… - American Journal of …, 2014 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to establish the prognostic utility in human
papillomavirus (HPV)–positive stage III and IV oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of …

Cardiac PET/CT misregistration causes significant changes in estimated myocardial blood flow

M Rajaram, AK Tahari, AH Lee, MA Lodge… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2013 - Soc Nuclear Med
Misregistration of cardiac PET/CT data can lead to misinterpretation of regional myocardial
perfusion. However, the effect of misregistration on the quantification of myocardial blood flow …

Follow-up or surveillance 18F-FDG PET/CT and survival outcome in lung cancer patients

AJ Antoniou, C Marcus, AK Tahari… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2014 - Soc Nuclear Med
The value of performing follow-up PET/CT imaging more than 6 mo after the conclusion of
therapy—either as a routine practice or because of clinically suspected recurrence—is not …