The objectives of this study were to investigate the clinical impact of partial volume effects (PVE) correction on the predictive and prognostic value of metabolically active tumor volume (MATV) measurements on 18F-FDG PET baseline scan for therapy response and overall survival in esophageal cancer patients. Methods: 50 patients with esophageal cancer treated with concomitant radio-chemotherapy...

We aim to characterize the metabolic changes associated with early response to radiation therapy in a prostate cancer mouse model by 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-d-glucose ([18F]FDG) and [11C]acetate ([11C]ACT) positron emission tomography, with nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) metabolomics corroboration. [18F]FDG and [11C]ACT PET were performed before and following irradiation (RT, 15Gy) for transgen...

Through the Looking Glass, 2198 Sixth Street, Suite 100, Berkeley, CA 94710. (800) 644-2666 (voice); (800) 804-1616 (TTY); [email protected]; www.lookingglass.org [Note: This is the original manuscript that was published in Infants and Young Children, 13(2), 9-20. (2000).] Introduction The intent of this article is two-fold: (1) to describe how a disability culture perspective has informed resea...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic potential of dual time-point 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging with multiple metabolic parameters in malignancy-suspected bone/joint lesions. Fifty seven consecutive patients were recruited. PET parameters including SUVmax, SUVmean, metabolic tumor volume (MTV), total lesional glycolysis (TLG) and retention indexes (RIs) were obtained. Thirty five m...

BACKGROUND Intratumoural heterogeneity has been demonstrated to be a strong indicator of malignant transformation. Our study was to investigate pretreatment (18)F-FDG parameters, including (18)F-FDG based heterogeneity for predicting survival in patients with locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). METHODS Forty newly diagnosed, biopsy-proven locally advanced NPC patients who underwe...

This study is to investigate the value of the metabolic parameters measured by sequential FDG PET/CT in predicting the overall survival of patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). A total of 160 patients who were newly diagnosed as ESCC patients and treated with chemoradiotherapy were included in this study. The FDG PET/CT was carried out prior to radiotherapy (PET1), when the c...

We aimed evaluate F-fluorodeoxyglucose uptake at major joints for differentiating patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from those with non-RA arthritis using F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-positron emission tomography (PET).Eighteen patients with RA (13 women; age, 66.8 ± 13.2 years) and 17 patients with non-RA (6 women; age, 50.8 ± 12.5 years) were included. Twelve joints of each patient were e...

BACKGROUND Low-level laser therapy (LLLT) has been demonstrated to be effective in optimizing skeletal muscle performance in animal experiments and in clinical trials. However, little is known about the effects of LLLT on muscle recovery after endurance training. OBJECTIVE This study evaluates the effects of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) applied after an endurance training protocol on bioche...

Objective The present study aimed to evaluate the in vivo response of a resistance training and low-level laser therapy (LLLT) on tibias and femurs of rats with diabetes mellitus (DM). Materials and methods Forty male Wistar rats were randomly distributed into four experimental groups: control group (CG), diabetic group (DG), diabetic trained group (TG) and diabetic trained and laser irradiat...

Methods 42 patients (median age 60.2 years, range 36.8-80.2; 19 males) with anal SCC, who received CRT with pretreatment 18F-FDG PET/CT were retrospectively reviewed. CTTA was performed on the largest tumour diameter CT image using TexRAD software. CTTA used a filtration-histogram technique, extracting fine, medium and coarse texture features, followed by quantification of histogram parameters....