18F-FDG PET/CT for monitoring of ipilimumab therapy in patients with metastatic melanoma

K Ito, R Teng, H Schöder, JL Humm, A Ni… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2019 - Soc Nuclear Med
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are now commonly used to treat patients with metastatic
malignant melanoma. Although concerns have been raised that the inflammatory response …

Whole-body FDG-PET/CT on rheumatoid arthritis of large joints

K Kubota, K Ito, M Morooka, T Mitsumoto… - Annals of nuclear …, 2009 - Springer
Objective Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake in joint lesions in patients with rheumatoid
arthritis (RA) reportedly represents the degree of synovial inflammation. Most previous studies …

Whole-body fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography in patients with active polymyalgia rheumatica: evidence for distinctive bursitis …

…, R Minaminoto, M Morooka, K Ito… - Modern …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Objectives To investigate fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) accumulation in large joints, bursas,
and large vessels in patients with polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) using 18-FDG positron …

Diagnostic usefulness of 18F-FDG PET/CT in the differentiation of pulmonary artery sarcoma and pulmonary embolism

K Ito, K Kubota, M Morooka, Y Shida, K Hasuo… - Annals of nuclear …, 2009 - Springer
Objective The purpose of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose
(FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) in differentiating pulmonary artery sarcoma …

[HTML][HTML] Differentiation of Brain Tumor Recurrence from Post-Radiotherapy Necrosis with 11C-Methionine PET: Visual Assessment versus Quantitative Assessment

R Minamimoto, T Saginoya, C Kondo, N Tomura, K Ito… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Purpose The aim of this multi-center study was to assess the diagnostic capability of visual
assessment in L-methyl- 11 C-methionine positron emission tomography (MET-PET) for …

[HTML][HTML] Long fasting is effective in inhibiting physiological myocardial 18F-FDG uptake and for evaluating active lesions of cardiac sarcoidosis

M Morooka, M Moroi, K Uno, K Ito, J Wu, T Nakagawa… - EJNMMI research, 2014 - Springer
Background F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) is a promising
modality for detecting active lesions of cardiac sarcoidosis (CS). However, determining …

Correlations between 18F-FDG uptake by bone marrow and hematological parameters: measurements by PET/CT

Y Murata, K Kubota, M Yukihiro, K Ito… - Nuclear medicine and …, 2006 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to investigate the correlations between 18 F-FDG uptake by bone
marrow and various hematological parameters. Forty-eight patients who underwent FDG-PET…

Prognostic value of baseline metabolic tumor volume measured on 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography in melanoma …

K Ito, H Schöder, R Teng, JL Humm, A Ni… - European journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Purpose Ipilimumab induces durable remission in about 15–20% of patients with metastatic
melanoma. However, reliable predictors of response to ipilimumab are currently lacking. …

[HTML][HTML] Clinicopathologic and genotypic features of lung adenocarcinoma characterized by the international association for the study of lung cancer grading system

…, Y Muraoka, J Kashima, Y Yoshida, K Ito… - Journal of Thoracic …, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction The new grading system proposed by the Pathology Committee of the International
Association for the Study of Lung Cancer in 2020 was based on the combination of the …

Usefulness of SWI for the detection of iron in the motor cortex in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

…, Y Saito, Y Kimura, Y Nakata, K Ito… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
PURPOSE The purpose of the present retrospective study was to evaluate the sensitivity of
susceptibility‐weighted imaging (SWI) compared to conventional spin‐echo T2‐weighted …