Dual-isotope myocardial SPECT in a female patient with idiopathic myocarditis showed completely inverse images in Tl-201 and I-123 MIBG SPECT. In the dual-isotope SPECT performed 13 days after her admission, Tl-201 SPECT images showed reduced accumulation in the apex and normal accumulation in the other regions, whereas the corresponding I-123 MIBG SPECT images showed normal findings in the ape...

iodine is essential element in thyroid hormones synthesis and normal growth and development of the brain. milk and iodine concentrations can be appropriate indicator of body iodine status; in this study, we evaluated the concentrations of urine and milk iodine in newborns and their mothers.in a cross-sectional study conducted in 2013, urine and milk iodine in 106 neonates and their mothers refe...

Thyroxine in the thyroid gland is considered to be firmly built into the protein molecule, thyroglobulin (1). Only after the gland is hydrolyzed with fairly strong alkali does its thyroxine become readily extractable with butyl alcohol. The iodine which circulates in plasma, on the other hand, can be almost completely extracted with butyl alcohol without previous hydrolysis (2). Considerable ev...

The performance of Radio-Isotope Identification (RIID) algorithms using NaIbased spectroscopy is increasingly important. For example, sensors at locations that screen for illicit nuclear material rely on isotope identification using NaI detectors to distinguish innocent nuisance alarms, arising from naturally occurring radioactive material, from alarms arising from threat isotopes. Recent data ...

Felty (1924) described five patients with chronic arthritis, splenomegaly, leucopenia, and pigmentation. Since then the association between rheumatoid arthritis, splenomegaly, and leucopenia has been referred to as Felty's syndrome, although it is generally believed that it is not a separate disease entity (Curtis and Pollard, 1940; Short, Bauer, and Reynolds, 1957). The aetiology of the leucop...

BACKGROUND Human sodium iodide symporter (hNIS) gene over-expression is under active consideration worldwide as an alternative target molecule for breast cancer (BC) diagnosis and targeted radio-iodine treatment. However, the field demands better stratified analysis of endogenous hNIS expression across major BC subtypes. Therefore, we have analyzed subtype-specific variation of hNIS overexpress...