Conjugates of 2-aminooxyethyliminodiacetic acid with estrone, testosterone, epiandrosterone, 17-alpha-hydroxy-progesterone and progesterone were synthesized and their complexes with Tc-99m were successfully prepared in good yields, which indicated the agent to be promising for metal-labeling of biomolecules and related substances containing one or more carbonyl groups. The biodistribution and s...

This retrospective clinical study was performed to evaluate whether a visual or quantitative method is more valuable for assessing painful temporomandibular disorder (TMD) using bone scintigraphy results.In total, 230 patients (172 women and 58 men) with TMD were enrolled. All patients were questioned about their temporomandibular joint (TMJ) pain. Bone scintigraphic data were acquired in all p...

BACKGROUND The Child-Pugh classification is used as an index of liver function. We assessed the relationship between modified Child score and sulfur colloid liver-spleen scintigraphy in histologically confirmed cirrhosis. METHOD Following injection of 185 MBq (99)mTechnetium-sulfur colloid, anterior and posterior images were obtained at 30 minutes with 500,000 counts. Liver-spleen scintigraph...

Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) poses an important diagnostic problem. Clinical picture of the disease is often atypical. SPECT is one of the main diagnostic tools in ischemic heart disease. Radioisotope study evaluates distribution of a radiopharmaceutical agent in the heart through a series of scintigraphic images taken by an external gamma camera. This article discusses the technical aspects of...

BACKGROUND Implantable intrathecal drug delivery systems (IDDS) are basic tool enabling chronic intrathecal pharmacotherapy. Lack of expected clinical results of IDDS therapy necessitates search for the cause with the help of diagnostic imaging methods among other things. Beside radiological techniques, it is also possible to visually assess IDDS systems by nuclear medicine methods. In this stu...

Scintigraphic images are strongly affected by Poisson noise. This article presents the results of a comparison between denoising methods for Poisson noise according to different criteria: the gain in signal-to-noise ratio, the preservation of resolution and contrast, and the visual quality. The wavelet techniques recently developed to denoise Poisson noise limited images are divided into two gr...

Fifty five patients suffering from blunt chest trauma were studied to assess the diagnosis of myocardial contusion using thallium 201 myocardial scintigraphy. Thirty-eight patients had consistent scintigraphic defects and were considered to have a myocardial contusion. All patients with scintigraphic defects had paroxysmal arrhythmias and/or ECG abnormalities. Of 38 patients, 32 had localized S...

A new scintigraphic count-based method for measuring absolute left ventricular volumes is presented. It is a fast and simple technique that allows geometrical assumptions to be avoided and is free of radiation attenuation corrections. This method requires the acquisition of an image of the left ventricle in the right anterior oblique projection and the collection of gated blood pool images in t...

T1 scintigraphic abnormalities have been reported in patients with an implanted permanent pacemaker, but little is known about the MIBG scintigraphic findings in such patients. This study was performed to assess the MIBG scintigraphic findings in patients with an implanted permanent pacemaker, and to test the hypothesis that imaging characteristics of MIBG scintigraphy differ according to its m...