PURPOSE We aimed to assess the role of single photon emission computed tomography-computed tomography (SPECT-CT) for characterizing isolated vertebral lesions observed by bone scintigraphy compared to planar scintigraphy, SPECT, and CT, and to evaluate the impact of SPECT-CT on patient management. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data from 99 patients (mean age, 52.4±18.9 years; females, 58.5%) with 108...

INTRODUCTION Early diagnosis of spinal metastases is of key importance in further therapeutic management. OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to assess the reliability of single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) or SPECT and computed tomography (SPECT/CT) in the diagnosis of solitary hot nodules in the spine identified by scintigraphy. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this retrospective st...

introduction quality control is an important phenomenon in nuclear medicine imaging. a jaszczak spect phantom provides consistent performance information for any spect or pet system. this article describes the simulation of a jaszczak phantom and creating an executable phantom file for comparing assessment of spect cameras using simind monte carlo simulation program which is well-established fo...

Introduction: Hemangiomas are the most frequent benign tumors of the liver and detecting them from metastasis or other malignant hepatic tumors is of outmost importance. 99mTc- RBC scan is highly specific and is the method of choice for this differentiation. This scintigraphy is performed in Planar and SPECT modes. These two procedures are in agreement most of the times, however since SPE...

We demonstrate that band-structure effects suppress bremsstrahlung of neutrino pairs by electrons in the crusts of neutron stars at temperatures of the order of 5×109K and below. Taking this into account, together with the fact that recent work indicates that the masses of neutron star crusts are considerably smaller than previously estimated, we find neutrino pair bremsstrahlung to be much les...

Accelerated and decelerated motions of a charged point particle inside medium are studied. It is shown explicitly that in addition to the bremsstrahlung and Cerenkov singular waves, previously unknown electromagnetic singular wave should be observed. It arises when the charge velocity coincides with the light velocity in medium. This wave has the same singularity as the Cerenkov one and, theref...