Publication in this issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine of the article by Classe et al.(pages
395–399 (1)) gives the opportunity for some considerations both from a speculative and …

Aim Debate exists in the literature about the optimal treatment to be adopted in patients with
locally advanced differentiated thyroid carcinoma. We aimed to better define the most …

Immunosuppresive treatment and secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) are considered
among the most important pathogenetic factors for post-renal transplant bone disease. The …

PURPOSE: Every PET scanner suffers of the partial volume effect (PVE), that is a loss of contrast
in small lesions causing a worsening in standardized uptake value (SUV) accuracy, that …

This study, which was based on a large series of consecutive patients imaged by 111 In-pentetreotide
SPECT for a neuroendocrine tumor, evaluated variability in reconstruction …

In this paper, a new methodological approach to using PET information in radiotherapy
treatment planning has been discussed. Computed tomography (CT) represents the primary …

1497 Objectives: To evaluate efficacy of FDG-PET/CT in detecting unknown primary from
head & neck and brain metastases. Methods: 43 patients were referred to us to investigate …

1273 Objectives To assess the usefulness of intraoperative use of a portable γ-camera for
the localization of sentinel nodes in breast cancer. Methods 16 female patients were …

The relationship between physics and medicine has ancient roots that sink to the dawn of
medicine with the use of physical techniques, like heat and light, to diagnose and treat …

[en] Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) is an advanced and promising technique
of external beam irradiation. IMRT is able to conform the dose distribution to the 3D tumour …