STUDY DESIGN Data were collected prospectively in six tertiary medical centers (Duke
University, Henry Ford Hospital, Massachu setts General Hospital, University of Michigan …

Modffied PIOPED Criteria Used in Clinical Practice Page 1 be underdiagnosed(2,3). The clinical
suspicion of PE is essential to its diagnosis, which is based initially on the physician's clinical …

Several reports have shown that radiomic features are affected by acquisition and
reconstruction parameters, thus hampering multicenter studies. We propose a method that …

This special supplement to The Journal of Nuclear Medicine is a detailed tabulation of
literature on FDG PET in oncology (1993–June 2000), cardiology (1986–June 2000), and …

Non-AC images of the body have considerable distortion present in le sion shape because
of nonuniform at tenuation. Zasadny et al.(5) reported an apparent 30% lengthening of clini …

It is important to recognize that this paper does not represent an official standard endorsed
by NEMA, since that will requireapprovalofthe NEMA Codes and Stand ards committee of …

Semiquantitative standard uptake values (SUVs) are used for tumor diagnosis and response
monitoring. However, the accuracy of the SUV and the accuracy of relative change during …

We used the archived Prospective Investigation of Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis II
(PIOPED II) data and images to test the hypothesis that reading perfusion scans with chest …

method increased dramatically 10 years ago when it was applied to the measurement of
cerebral glucose utilization, with fluomdeoxyglucose (FDG) as the in vivo tracer. What …

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