This document from the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology represents an updated consensus statement on the evidence base of stress myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI), emphasizing new developments in single-photon emission tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET) in the clinical evaluation of women presenting with symptoms of stable ischemic heart disease (SIHD). The clinica...

OBJECTIVES We compared catheter-based electromechanical mapping (NOGA system, Biosense-Webster, Haifa, Israel) with positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) for prediction of reversibly dysfunctional myocardium (RDM) and irreversibly dysfunctional myocardium (IDM) in patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction. Furthermore, we established t...

Background: The purpose of this study is to clarify the utility of thallium-201 single photon emission tomography (Tl-SPECT) for predicting local recurrence after stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) by comparing it with 18fl udeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET). Since Tl-SPECT can be performed at general hospitals, the ability of Tl-SPECT to predict local recurrence after SRT is cli...

Ocular melanoma (OM) is a rare noncutaneous malignancy and consists of 2 different subtypes based on the anatomic location in eye: uveal conjunctival melanoma. Like cutaneous melanoma, OM benefits from nuclear medicine molecular imaging nodal staging clinical management. Through illustration distinctive cases, we aim to demonstrate complementary roles standard lymphoscintigraphy, advanced SPECT...

Nuclear medicine imaging modalities such as positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) have played a prominent role in lymphoma management. PET with [(18)F]Fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) is the most commonly used tool for lymphoma imaging. However, FDG-PET has several limitations that give the false positive or false negative diagnosis of lymphoma....

To evaluate the role of (99m)Tc-DMSA (V) and [(18)F]FDG PET-CT in management of patients with osteosarcoma, 22 patients were included in our study. All patients underwent both (99m)Tc-DMSA (V) and whole-body [(18)F]FDG PET-CT scans within an interval of 1 week. 555-740 MBq of (99m)Tc-DMSA (V) was injected i.v. the whole-body planar, SPECT images of primary site and chest were performed after 3-...

introduction: although pet scanning using f-18[fdg] is considered the superior radiotracer for tumnor imaging, gallium-67 is still in use for some malignancies such as lymphoma and hepatoma. one of the strategies to improve the diagnostic accuracy of gallium is to perform spect which is reported to be more sensitive compared to planar imaging. in this study we compared the sensitivity of spect ...

Data extraction Four reviewers screened potential studies and independently extracted study data. Discrepancies were resolved by consensus. Data synthesis Of the 3694 citations, 166 articles (17.744 patients) met the inclusion criteria: 18 PET (1.441 patients), 111 SPECT (13.462 patients) and 37 CMR (2.841 patients) articles respectively. The overall patient based analysis demonstrated a sensit...

In the last decade, positron emission tomography (PET) myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) has emerged as a valuable clinical tool for the management of patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease (CAD). Compared with singlephoton emission computed-tomography (SPECT), PET provides higher-quality images and superior diagnostic accuracy (1). Increased availability of PET scanners, Med...

UNLABELLED Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) can be visualized using radiolabeled somatostatin analogs. We have previously shown the clinical potential of (64)Cu-DOTATATE in a small first-in-human feasibility study. The aim of the present study was, in a larger prospective design, to compare on a head-to-head basis the performance of (64)Cu-DOTATATE and (111)In-diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DT...