Cancer cells show increased metabolism of both glucose and amino acids, which can be
monitored with 18 F-2-deoxy-2-fluoro-d-glucose (FDG), a glucose analogue, and 11 Cl …

Interpretation of studies from all imaging modalities requires a knowledge of the possible
pitfalls that may occur due to normal variation, artefacts and processes which may mimic …

Objective: Myocardial hibernation is an adaptive response to ischemia and hypoxia.
Hibernating cardiomyocytes are reversibly hypocontractile and demonstrate characteristic …

The effects of dietary condition and blood glucose level on the kinetics and uptake of 18F-
FDG in mice were systematically investigated using intraperitoneal and tail-vein injection …

In FDG-PET for abdominal malignancy, the liver may be assumed as an internal standard for
grading abnormal FDG uptake both in early images and in delayed images. However …

Background Right ventricular (RV) function is a powerful predictor of survival in patients with
pulmonary hypertension (PH), but noninvasively assessing RV function remains a …

Skeletal muscle and brain are major sites of glucose transport and ascorbate (vitamin C)
storage. Ascorbate is oxidized to dehydroascorbic acid (DHAA) when used as an enzyme …

The interest around small-animal cardiac radionuclide imaging is growing as rodent models
can be manipulated to allow the simulation of human diseases. In addition to new …

2-Deoxy-2-18F-fluoro-d-mannose (18F-FDM) is an 18F-labeled mannose derivative and a
stereoisomer of 18F-FDG. Our preliminary study demonstrated that 18F-FDM accumulated in …

It is demonstrated that fasting can alter the biodistribution of radiopharmaceuticals in nuclear
medicine. Various studies have highlighted that fasting is interpreted to be easy for …