a 60-year-old patient with testicular seminoma was referred for f-18 fdg pet/ct study to evaluate recurrence. in addition to hypermetabolic cervical, mediastinal and hilar lymph node tumoral metastases, segmental intense fdg uptake along the lumbar spinal cord suggestive of tumoral metastasis was noted which quite an unusual presentation is.  at the time of pet study the patient was symptomless...

PURPOSE To compare the conspicuity of malignant lesions between FDG PET/CT and a new simultaneous, time-of-flight (TOF) enabled PET/MRI scanner. METHODS All patients underwent a single-injection of FDG, followed by a dual imaging protocol consisting of PET/CT followed by TOF PET/MRI. PET/CT and PET/MRI images were evaluated by two readers independently for areas of FDG uptake compatible with ...

To evaluate the quality and diagnostic performance of F-Fluoride positron-emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging (F-Fluoride PET/MR) compared to F-Fluoride positron-emission tomography/computed tomography (F-Fluoride PET/CT) imaging in patients with unclear foot pain. Methods: Twenty-two patients (9 men, 13 women; mean age 48±18 years, range: 20–78 years) were prospectively included in ...

Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA To evaluate the effect of surface coils for carotid MR imaging on PET quantification in a clinical simultaneous whole-body PET/MR scanner. A cylindrical phantom was filled with a homogeneous 2L water-FDG mixture at a starting dose of 301.2MBq. Clinical PET/MR and PET/CT systems were used to...

in this study lemon juice were packaged at three type of packaging ( pet , pe and glass bottles ). the samples were stored ten weeks at 20 and 40 ◦c . physicochemical (ph, acidity, brix, vitamin c , so2 and formalin number ) and sensory properties of lemon juice were evaluated on every two weeks. the results showed that the two storage temperatures(20 and 40 ◦c ) had not any significant effect ...

UNLABELLED Using different tracers of tumor metabolism, the application of PET for monitoring gene therapy with the suicide gene herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (HSVtk) is investigated in this in vitro study. METHODS Morris hepatoma cells were transfected with a retroviral vector bearing the HSVtk gene, and different clones were established by selection with the neomycin analog G418. Th...

introduction: neisseria meningitidis is a major causative agent of bacterial septicemia and meningitis in human. pora is a major component of the outer membrane of n. meningitidis and functions as a cationic porin. this study aimed to clone and determine the expression of pora as the first step for producing a proper antigen in a vaccine study against n. meningitidis. methods: an approximately ...