BACKGROUND In patients with myocardial infarction and left ventricular dysfunction, the evidence of myocardial viability is primordial. There are some methods to detect the presence of myocardial viability, 201 thallium reinjection SPECT protocol represents the most common radioisotopic technique to evaluate it. Positron emission tomography (PET) using FDG is considered the gold standard. The a...

Designing a testable circuit is often a two step process. First, the circuit is designed to conform to the functional specifications. Then, the testability aspects are added. By taking the test strategy into account during the synthesis of the circuit, the overhead due to the test features can be reduced. We present a synthesis-for-scan procedure, called beneficial scan, that orders the scan ch...

Background Typically, metal-based radiopharmaceuticals are synthesized in aqueous solutions with no or low ethanol content. Labeling yields are defined by temperature, period of labeling, amount of precursor, pH etc. As recently observed, radiolabeling yields (RCY) seem to increase in the presence of non-aqueous solvents. Consequently, this effect was investigated systematically using ethanol a...

Studies of I13'-albumin catabolism and distribution are appearing in rapidly increasing numbers in current literature. The data for normal human subjects reported from various laboratories differ considerably in mode of analysis and in results obtained. In normal subjects the observed "half-life" of I'31-albumin has ranged from below 10 to above 20 days (1-15), and the ratio of the amount of al...

Designing a scannable circuit is typically a two-step process. The circuit is first designed to meet the functional specifications, without taking the scan path into consideration. The circuit is then analyzed, and the scan path is inserted based on this analysis. When the scan path is considered during the synthesis of a circuit rather than after the synthesis, the overhead due to the scan pat...

trauma is the most common reason in 1-34 years olds. in patient with multiple traumas, the head is the most common involved part. the importance of computed tomography (ct scan) in diagnosis of brain trauma is well established and ct of the brain is a choice method. finding lesion in brain traumatic patient is very important so goal of this study is finding of brain ct scan in traumatic patient...

this paper presents four cases of abnormal soft tissue activity in the bone scan of patients with different lesions (lung inflammatory pseudotumor, pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary metastatic osteosarcoma and metastatic hepatic carcinoma of colon).

a wireless sensor network (wsn) is a wireless decentralized structure network consists of many nodes. nodes can be fixed or mobile. wsn applications typically observe some physical phenomenon through sampling of the environment so determine the location of events is an important issue in wsn. wireless localization used to determine the position of nodes. the precise localization in wsns is a co...

background: positron emission tomography (pet) scan is a non-invasive, complicated and expensive medical imaging technology used for diagnosis and treatment of various diseases including cancers. this study aimed to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of this technology in iran. methods: the major medical electronic databases including cochrane library, google scholar, medline and iranmedex w...