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...

POEMS syndrome is a rare plasmacyte-associated disease, one of the major diagnostic criteria of which is sclerotic bone lesion. To detect bone lesions in POEMS syndrome, which imaging method should be routinely applied and what characteristics they display are still unconfirmed. We analyzed clinical data and imaging characteristics of bone lesions in 22 patients with POEMS using multimodal meth...

X-ray computed tomography (CT) has recently been experiencing remarkable growth as a result of technological advances and new clinical applications. This paper reviews the essential physics of X-ray CT and its major components. Also reviewed are recent promising applications of CT, ie, CT-guided procedures, CT-based thermometry, photon-counting technology, hybrid PET-CT, use of ultrafast-high p...

miliary mottling on chest radiography is seen in miliary tuberculosis, certain fungal infections, sarcoidosis, coal miner’s pneumoconiosis, silicosis, hemosiderosis, fibrosing alveolitis, acute extrinsic allergic alveolitis, pulmonary eosinophilic syndrome, pulmonary alveolar proteinosis, and rarely in hematogenous metastases from the primary cancers of the thyroid, kidney, trophoblasts, and so...

An X-ray computed tomography (CT) system that is capable of dimensional measurements is incleasingly propergating in our life because the realization of simultaneous nondestructive dimensional measurements for outward forms and inward forms on dense spatial points in short time duration remarkably facilitates production loop. However, the X-ray CT is still not applicable to all of industrial ob...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Unspecific pain of the hand/wrist is a diagnostic challenge. Radiographs and planar bone scan are useful diagnostic tools in patients with unspecific wrist pain. Both modalities are deficient, either by not presenting metabolic disorders or due to inadequate anatomical resolution. Single photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT) claims to fuse b...

BACKGROUND Hybrid imaging combines nuclear medicine imaging such as single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) or positron emission tomography (PET) with computed tomography (CT). Through this hybrid design, scanned patients accumulate radiation exposure from both applications. Imaging modalities have been the subject of long-term optimization efforts, focusing on diagnostic application...

background: conventional tomography used for evaluation of the small areas of the jaws provides acceptable information. it has some advantages of availability, less radiation dose and costin comparison to computed tomography (ct) and cone beam ct. double emulsion film usuallyused for taking tomograms requires less exposure than single emulsion film; on the other hand,the latter provides more sh...

We give a short account of the history of CT from motion tomography in the early 1930’s to sprial CT. We discuss the physical and the mathematical background. Finally we give an outlook on possible future developments of CT and related techniques. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Imaging Syst Technol, 12, 175–187, 2002; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DO...

Advanced applications of materials need sophisticated measurement methods for research, process development and quality control. X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) is a very powerful method for non-destructive testing of materials. A CT-scanner generates a series of X-ray attenuation measurements, which are used to produce computed reconstructed images of an object. In the last years 3D-CT systems ...