OBJECTIVES 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-FDG PET-CT) is a well-used and established technique for lung cancer staging. Radiation therapy requires accurate target volume delineation, which is difficult in most cases due to coexisting atelectasis. The present study was performed to compare the 18F-FDG PET-CT with contrast enhanced computed tomography...

context inherited and sporadic medullary thyroid cancer (mtc) is an uncommon and medically challenging malignancy. even if the extent of initial surgery is deemed adequate, the recurrence rate remains high, up to 50% in most series. measurement of serum calcitonin is important in the follow-up of patients with mtc, and reliably reflects the existence of the disease. evidence acquisition there i...

temporal bone chondroblastoma is an extremely rare benign bone tumor. we encountered two cases showing similar imaging findings on computed tomography (ct), magnetic resonance imaging (mri), and dual-time-point 18f-fluorodeoxyglucose (18f-fdg) positron emission tomography (pet)/ct. in both cases, ct images revealed temporal bone defects and sclerotic changes around the tumor. most parts of the ...

Fluorescein is modified to bear 18F so that it can act as both a positron emitter, and a fluorophore, allowing detection by positron emission tomography (PET), scintillation, and fluorescent imaging (FL). [18F]-2 is injected into the intrathecal space of rats and used to observe the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) that bathes the brain and spine. Injury in three different applications is visualized w...

In this article we review published and some unpublished work in statistical analyses of ROC curves. We describe both single and joint indices and indicate the approaches that have been taken to consider between-reader variations and correlations, within-reader variations, and variations and correlations between cases. We then discuss in detail a single index, the TP ratio at a fixed FP ratio (...

Despite its obvious suitability for distributed multimedia applications, multicasting has not yet found widespread application. Having analyzed shortcomings of today's approaches, we devise in the GCAP project a new endto-end transport architecture for multimedia multicasting that supports partial order and partial reliability. In this paper, we argue that, at the network layer, single-source m...

Background: To investigate the value of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging (18F-FDG PET/MRI) in diagnosing local tumor invasion (T stage), evaluating regional lymph node involvement (N and detecting distant metastasis (M stage) breast cancer patients.

INTRODUCTION Positron Emission Tomography - Computer Tomography (PET-CT) is an interesting imaging technique to visualize Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) activity using specific PET tracers. Previous studies have shown that the PET tracers [18F]FDG and [11C](R)PK11195 can target inflammation (synovitis) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and may therefore be useful in AS. Another interesting tracer for A...

Our objective was to study 2 radioligands for visualization of -receptors with PET. Methods: Two radioligands— 1-selective 11C-1-(3,4-dimethoxyphenethyl)-4-(3-phenylpropyl)piperazine (11C-SA4503) and nonsubtype-selective 1-(4–2 -18F-fluoroethoxy-3-methoxyphenethyl)-4-(3-(4-fluorophenyl)propyl)piperazine (18F-FE-SA5845)—were evaluated for tumor imaging. Results: Binding studies to rat glioma cel...

BACKGROUND 3'-Deoxy-3'-[18F]fluorothymidine ([18F]FLT) PET has limited utility in abdominal imaging due to high physiological hepatic uptake of a tracer. We evaluated [18F]FLT-PET/CT combined with a temporal-intensity information-based voxel-clustering approach termed kinetic spatial filtering (KSF) to improve tumour visualisation in patients with locally advanced and metastatic gastro-oesophag...