We describe the usefulness of thallium-201 SPECT in a patient with neoplastic meningitis (NM) from gastric carcinoma. Thallium-201 SPECT is of value for the diagnosis of cancer; retention of thallium-201 on delayed images strongly suggests malignancy. NM is a lethal, major neurologic complication of cancer. The standard for the diagnosis of NM is cytologic confirmation of malignant cells in CSF...

Although thallium-201 exercise scintigraphy has been established for the detection of myocardial ischemia and viability, little is known regarding the myocardial thallium-201 kinetics during angioplasty. Herein, we report a 77-year old man with angina pectoris, in whom serial myocardial imaging after a single dose of thallium-201 was helpful in identifying not only the culprit lesion and myocar...

Abstract 52 coal ash samples from individual households were analyzed to determine the pH and concentrations of four toxic elements: arsenic, cadmium, lead thallium. The method used was atomic absorption spectrometry with graphite-furnace atomization. originated various grades statistical analysis showed existing correlations between studied elements, grades. maximum thallium 50,900, 43,500, 12...

Rest thallium-201 scintigraphy, radionuclide ventriculography and 24 hour Holter monitoring are acceptable methods to assess myocardial necrosis, performance and electrical instability. This study examined the relative value of the three tests, when obtained a mean of 7 days after acute myocardial infarction, in predicting 1 year mortality in 93 patients. Planar thallium-201 images were obtaine...

T he use of vasodilator thallium-201 myocardial imaging, although still investigational, is finding wide application. The principle of vasodilator thallium-201 myocar-dial imaging was first put forward by Strauss and Pitt,' who used dimethyladenosine in dogs with experimental coronary artery narrowing. They demonstrated that dimethyladenosine increased coronary blood flow and thallium-201 uptak...

In patients with valvar heart disease detection of coronary artery disease by conventional non-invasive methods may be difficult. The usefulness of thallium-201 exercise scintigraphy for detecting coronary artery disease was evaluated in 16 patients with aortic stenosis, 17 with aortic regurgitation, nine with mitral stenosis, and six with mitral regurgitation who were investigated by coronary ...

A method for thallium determination in some sulfide minerals (sphalerite, galena, orpiment and realgar) by electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry has been proposed. Mineral samples were dissolved in a mixture of HNO3 and HCl. The effect of interfering elements (Zn, Pb and As) on the determination of Tl in the investigated minerals was studied. These investigations show that it is not pos...

Technetium-99m (Tc-99m) teboroxime is a new perfusion tracer that is highly extracted and rapidly cleared by the myocardium. To determine the feasibility of Tc-99m teboroxime imaging in the diagnosis of patients with suspected coronary artery disease, 30 patients underwent single photon emission computed tomography imaging with Tc-99m teboroxime (25.2 +/- 1 mCi) at peak exercise and again 60 mi...

An electrochemical hydride generation (ECHG) technique was developed to improve the determination of thallium by atomic spectrometry. The technique is based on the catholyte variation system for production of thallium hydride. Using Pb-Sn alloy as cathode, a transient peak shaped signal was achieved and its height, the maximum absorbance value, was taken as an analytical parameter. Parameters t...