History and future technical innovation in positron emission tomography

T Jones, D Townsend - Journal of Medical Imaging, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Instrumentation for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging has experienced
tremendous improvements in performance over the past 60 years since it was first conceived …

PET in differentiation of recurrent brain tumor from radiation injury

DD Langleben, GM Segall - Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2000 - Soc Nuclear Med
The annual incidence of primary intracranial tumors is 7 to 19 cases per 100,000 people.
The general approach to the treatment of brain neoplasms is surgical resection of solitary …

Molecular imaging and its biological applications

ME Phelps - Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 2004 - Springer
This book is written as both a text and a reference book. It contains numerous images from
the biological sciences and clinical practice, tables, graphs, and fig ures, as well as …

[PDF][PDF] Optimal interpretation of FDG PET in the diagnosis, staging and management of pancreatic carcinoma

D Delbeke, DM Rose, WC Chapman… - Journal of Nuclear …, 1999 - Soc Nuclear Med
Methods: Sixty-five patients who presented with suspected pancreatic carcinoma underwent
whole-body FDG PET in addi tion to CT imaging. The PET ÂĄmageswere analyzed visually …

Effect of temperature on dopamine transporter function and intracellular accumulation of methamphetamine: implications for methamphetamine-induced dopaminergic …

T Xie, UD McCann, S Kim, J Yuan… - Journal of …, 2000 - Soc Neuroscience
Hyperthermia exacerbates and hypothermia attenuates methamphetamine (METH)-induced
dopamine (DA) neurotoxicity. The mechanisms underlying these temperature effects are …

The detection of local recurrent head and neck cancer with fluroine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose dual-head positron emission tomography

MPM Stokkel, CHJ Terhaard, GJ Hordijk… - European journal of …, 1999 - Springer
Primary tumors of the larynx and hypopharynx are preferably treated with high-dose
radiation therapy. In these patients, it may be difficult to distinguish recurrent disease from …

Combined functional and structural evaluation of cancer patients with a hybrid camera-based PET/CT system using 18F-FDG

O Israel, M Mor, D Gaitini, Z Keidar… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2002 - Soc Nuclear Med
Correct diagnosis and definition of the functional and anatomic status of lesions in cancer
patients are of clinical importance. The value of hybrid imaging using a gamma camera …

Comparative evaluation of lesion detectability for 6 PET imaging platforms using a highly reproducible whole-body phantom with 22Na lesions and localization ROC …

DJ Kadrmas, PE Christian - Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2002 - Soc Nuclear Med
The lesion detectability performance of 6 PET imaging platforms has been compared using
a highly reproducible whole-body phantom and localization receiver operating characteristic …

18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography: a new explorative perspective

M Schirmer, KT Calamia, M Wenger, A Klauser… - Experimental …, 2003 - Elsevier
18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography (18F-FDG-PET) is a new functional
imaging technique available for clinical and experimental use. 18F-FDG-PET studies can be …

Detection of occult disease in breast cancer using fluorodeoxyglucose camera-based positron emission tomography

AP Pecking, C Mechelany-Corone… - Clinical Breast …, 2001 - Elsevier
An isolated increase of blood tumor marker CA 15.3 in breast cancer is considered a
sensitive indicator for occult metastatic disease but by itself is not sufficient for initiating …