UNLABELLED The objective of the work reported here was to develop and test automated methods to calculate biodistribution of PET tracers using small-animal PET images. METHODS After developing software that uses visually distinguishable organs and other landmarks on a scan to semiautomatically coregister a digital mouse phantom with a small-animal PET scan, we elastically transformed the phan...

Nuclear medicine plays an integral role in the management of differentiated thyroid cancer. This editorial aims to provide a summary of the current role of radionuclide imaging, including whole body iodine scan and fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-positron emission tomography (PET), in the diagnostic work-up and follow-up of patients with thyroid cancer.

Intracortical hemangioma is an extremely uncommon primary bone tumor; only 11 cases have been reported in the English literature. We report a case of right tibial intracortical hemangioma with pathologic and imaging findings, including plain radiograph, MRI, and whole-body bone-scan images.

Musculoskeletal examinations provide informative and valuable quantitative insight into muscle and bone health. DXA is one mainstream tool used to accurately and reliably determine body composition components and bone mass characteristics in-vivo. Presently, whole body scan models separate the body into axial and appendicular regions, however there is a need for localised appendicular segmentat...

In this study, we evaluated the feasibility of using virtual fit pressure map in a clothing-specific CAD program to predict pressures applied by sports compression garments analyzing prediction accuracy and process practicability. wearer trials with whole-body sportswear, measured vivo compared them recorded from maps fitted 13 participants’ body scan avatars. No clear correlations between were...

A 76-year-old man with bone metastases of prostate cancer diagnosed a year ago was admitted for relief of bone pain (visual analogue scale: 90%) most markedly in cervical spine and upper extremities due to skeletal metastases. His serum prostate specific antigen level was markedly increased (351 ng/ml). After documentation of sufficient tracer uptake in multiple bone metastases on whole-body 99...

conclusions performing routine chest and abdominopelvic ct-scan in conscious blunt trauma patients decreases the hospitalization time but has no effect on patient complications and final outcome. using a selective approach and performing ct-scan only for symptomatic patients, would be an appropriate option to decrease radiation dose and facility overuse. nevertheless, the concern of missing occ...