Fever of unknown origin is still a medical challenge. Ga single photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography images are commonly used to evaluate the final diagnosis of fever of unknown origin. We presented a case of fever of unknown origin undergone Ga scintigraphy and an intra-abdominal Ga avid tumor was detected which suspected to be a neoplasm. Further contrast enhanced computed ...

gliomas account for almost 80% of primary malignant brain tumors in adults. magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is still the gold standard for diagnosis of brain tumors and brain 99mtc-tetrofosmin single photon emission computed tomography (99mtc-tetrofosmin-spect) has been established as a useful tool for their evaluation. fluorine-18–2-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose positron emission tomography/comput...

results thirty-four patients were hyperglycemic and 127 non diabetic. sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value of fdg-pet/ct were 90%, 88%, 87% and 91% in non diabetic and 82%, 92%, 95% and 73% in hyperglycemic patients, respectively. overall, the accuracy was higher in non diabetic than hyperglycemic patients (89% vs. 85%). conclusions accuracy of fdg-p...

this paper intends to compare the abilities of the two major imaging modalities in nuclear medicine imaging: positron emission tomography (pet) and single photon emission computed tomography (spect). the motivations are many-fold: (i) to gain a better understanding of the strengths and limitations of the two imaging modalities in the context of recent and ongoing developments in hardware and so...

OBJECTIVE To examine the diagnostic accuracy of positron emission tomography/computed tomography in evaluating the mediastinum of patients with non-small cell lung cancer compared to histopathology results. METHODS The prospective study was conducted at the Department of Thoracic Surgery of the Pulmonary Hospital in Zakopane, Poland, from September 2008 to August 2012 and comprised patients w...

Standard pre-treatment clinical staging (TNM) of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma includes clinical and instrumental objective examination of primary tumour and of the cervical lymph nodes (inspection, palpation of neck, panendoscopy, biopsy of tumour, fine needle aspiration of nodes) and computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging. Albeit, this procedure presents diagnostic limitati...

Approved: __________________________________ Thesis Supervisor __________________________________ Title and Department __________________________________ Date 1 EVALUATION OF ATTENUATION AND SCATTER CORRECTION REQUIREMENTS IN SMALL ANIMAL PET AND SPECT IMAGING