Forty-four patients with recurrent colorectal carcinoma were examined prior to a combination
of conventional photon radiotherapy (40 Gy) and neutron therapy (10 Gy). Twenty-one of …

Positron emission tomography (PET) was used in the follow-up of patients with colorectal
malignancies to differentiate between recurrent colorectal tumor and scar. Patients were …

In order to evaluate the usefulness of 18F-FDG PET in the assessment of therapeutic effects,
FDG-PET studies were performed both before and after therapy in 26 patients with …

(13). These changes have been attributed to †œinflamma tion― induced by
irradiation(13). Thus, it appeared impor tant to clarify the relationship of FDG, methionine …

Purpose: To investigate and measure the metabolism of colorectal cancer liver metastases
using 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG PET), before and during …

Fluorine-18-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) was used to
image 38 patients with known or suspected malignant processes involving the abdomen or …

DISCUSSION Investigations of the impact of irradiation on the glucose metabolism show a
decrease of FDG uptake in radiosensitive tumors (5, 8). However, no investigations focused …

To assess the clinical value of whole-body positron emission tomography (PET) with [18F]
fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) in recurrent colorectal cancer, 35 patients were studied: 15 had …

18-Fluorodeoxyglucose PET Page 1 Evaluation of Esophageal Cancers Using Fluorine18-Fluorodeoxyglucose
PET Toru Fukunaga, Shinichi Okazumi. Yoshio Koide, Kaichi lsono and Keiko lmazeki …

PURPOSE: To evaluate the routine clinical value of attenuation-corrected whole-body
fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in colorectal cancer, a total of 59 patients …