PURPOSE To determine whether acute hypertension (HT) is a risk factor for damage to the blood-brain barrier in carotid angiography with nonionic contrast media. METHODS Anesthetized rats received intravenous injections of technetium-99m-pertechnetate and horseradish peroxidase. Two groups of rats received metaraminol to raise their blood pressure to between 165 and 190 mmHg peak systolic and ...

Reductive nitrosylation and complexation of ammonium pertechnetate by acetohydroxamic acid has been achieved in aqueous nitric and perchloric acid solutions. The kinetics of the reaction depend on the relative concentrations of the reaction components and are accelerated at higher temperatures. The reaction does not occur unless conditions are acidic. Analysis of the X-ray absorption fine struc...

objective(s): to review the findings of the patients with sjögren’s syndrome (ss) having technetium-99m-pertechnetate (99mtc-pertechnetate) and gallium-67 citrate (ga-67) salivary gland scintigraphy in the past eight years.methods: the patients with ss, who were referred to our department for salivary gland scintigraphy during january 2008-december 2015 were studied using both 99mtc-pertechneta...

Clinical or subclinical hyperparathyroidism is one of the most common endocrine disorders. Excessive secretion of parathyroid hormone is most frequently caused by an adenoma of >or=1 parathyroid gland. Unsuccessful surgery with persistent hyperparathyroidism, due to inadequate preoperative or intraoperative localization, may be observed in about 10% of patients. The conventional surgical approa...

when tc-99m-sulfur colloid was introduced as an ideal liver-spleen agent in nuclear medicine, many other types of colloids followed by different manufacturers. they hoped to find a suitable colloidal agent, contrary to sulfur colloid, which is easy to use, and less sensitive to the low contamination of aluminum ions. one of this type of colloid agents, is tc-99-tin-colloid which is prepared by ...

Method We compared the MiniElite and MicroElite (Philips/Respironics, Murrysville, PA), Traveler (DeVilbiss, Somerset, PA) and Trek S (Pari Respiratory Equipment, Midlothian, VA) using 200 uL of radiolabelled Tc as sodium pertechnetate in normal saline, added to either a 3 mL ampule of 2.5 mg albuterol and .25 mg in 2.0 mL of budesonide in separate tests. Particle size was measured by cascade i...

UNLABELLED (99m)Tc is currently produced by an aging fleet of nuclear reactors, which require enriched uranium and generate nuclear waste. We report the development of a comprehensive solution to produce (99m)Tc in sufficient quantities to supply a large urban area using a single medical cyclotron. METHODS A new target system was designed for (99m)Tc production. Target plates made of tantalum...

Patients undergoing partial thyroidectomy for benign diseases may need re-operation if differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) is detected on histopathology. The aim of this study was to determine if using gamma probe during the above surgery in a procedure called: gamma probe completion thyroidectomy (GPCT) could support the diagnosis of DTC tissue and offer an advantage in the surgical treatme...

SCINTIGRAPHIC VISUALIZATION OF ABDOMINAL LYMPH NODES WITH 99mTc-PERTECHNETATE-LABELED SULFUR COLLOID Virgil F. Fairbanks, W. Newlon Tauxe, Joseph M. Kiely, and W. Eugene Miller 185 EFFECT OF LINE SPACING AND RATEMETER AVERAGING ON LESION DETECTION L. G. Knowles, E. F. Hart, and A. G. Schulz 191 CLINICAL EVALUATION OF °TGa-CITRATE SCANNING T. Higasi, Y. Nakayama, A. Murata, K. Nakamura, M. Sugi...