Performance evaluation of the uEXPLORER total-body PET/CT scanner based on NEMA NU 2-2018 with additional tests to characterize PET scanners with a long …

…, JP Schmall, N Omidvari, EK Leung… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2021 - Soc Nuclear Med
The world’s first total-body PET scanner with an axial field of view (AFOV) of 194 cm is now
in clinical and research use at our institution. The uEXPLORER PET/CT system is the first …

Phase I clinical trial of allogeneic mixed lymphocyte culture (cytoimplant) delivered by endoscopic ultrasound− guided fine‐needle injection in patients with advanced …

…, JA Thompson, TT Kurosaki, LR Casey, EC Leung… - Cancer, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND To the authors' knowledge, there are no other published clinical studies
that have employed either systemic or local biologic response modifiers in the treatment of …

A relatively stable antifungal peptide from buckwheat seeds with antiproliferative activity toward cancer cells

EHW Leung, TB Ng - Journal of Peptide Science: an official …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
An antifungal peptide with a molecular mass of approximately 4 kDa was isolated from
buckwheat seeds by using ion‐exchange chromatography on SP‐Sepharose and Q‐Sepharose, …

Mini EXPLORER II: a prototype high-sensitivity PET/CT scanner for companion animal whole body and human brain scanning

…, E Wisner, E Berg, S McKenney, E Leung… - Physics in Medicine …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
As part of the EXPLORER total-body positron emission tomography (PET) project, we have
designed and built a high-resolution, high-sensitivity PET/CT scanner, which is expected to …

Quantitative accuracy in total-body imaging using the uEXPLORER PET/CT scanner

EK Leung, E Berg, N Omidvari… - Physics in medicine …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Absolute quantification of regional tissue concentration of radioactivity in positron emission
tomography (PET) is a critical parameter-of-interest across various clinical and research …

Design of the NeuroEXPLORER, a next-generation ultra-high performance human brain PET imager

…, A Hillmer, P Honhar, J Hoye, L Hu, T Jones, E Leung… - 2021 - Soc Nuclear Med
1120 Objectives: PET human brain imaging has evolved dramatically, with the availability of
a vast array of specific radiotracers, leading to numerous imaging paradigms to measure a …

Concurrent purification of two defense proteins from French bean seeds: a defensin‐like antifungal peptide and a hemagglutinin

EHW Leung, JH Wong, TB Ng - Journal of Peptide Science: an …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
A purification protocol is described herein for concurrent isolation of two defense proteins
including a 6‐kDa defensin‐like antifungal peptide and a 60‐kDa dimeric hemagglutinin from …

[HTML][HTML] Lutetium background radiation in total-body PET—A simulation study on opportunities and challenges in PET attenuation correction

N Omidvari, L Cheng, EK Leung… - Frontiers in Nuclear …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The current generation of total-body positron emission tomography (PET) scanners offer
significant sensitivity increase with an extended axial imaging extent. With the large volume of …

The quasi-war in East Asia: Japan's expedition to Taiwan and the Ryūkyū controversy

EPW Leung - Modern Asian Studies, 1983 - cambridge.org
The 1870s witnessed mounting tension among East Asian countries. In 1874,. Japan sent
an expeditionary force to Taiwan to punish the aborigines there who had, in 1871, killed fifty-…

Performance assessment of a software-based coincidence processor for the EXPLORER total-body PET scanner

EK Leung, MS Judenhofer, SR Cherry… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Coincidence processing in positron emission tomography (PET) is typically done during
acquisition of the data. However, on the EXPLORER total-body PET scanner we plan, in addition…