Received 2/19/2010; revised 3/3/2010; accepted 3/10/2010. For correspondence and reprints contact: Wan-Yu Lin, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital. 160 Section 3, ChungGang Road, Taichung 407, Taiwan. Tel: (886)4-23741349, Fax: (886)4-23741348, E-mail: [email protected] Whole body I scan is a regular method for detecting metastatic thyroid carcinoma. Focal ...

An 80-year old woman complained of a 1-month history of dry cough. Bronchoscopy and tracheobronchial biopsy revealed tracheobronchial amyloidosis. Compted tomography scan showed narrowing of the trachea with intraluminal nodularity. Whole body and single photon emission computed tomography Tc pyrophosphate scan revealed diffuse uptake in the tracheobronchial tree, liver, and myocardium — with a...

2 JUNE 2015 I n [Fingar, 2008], the US National Intelligence Council reported six potentially disruptive technologies for the year 2025, one of them being service robotics. The report states that, “[...] robots for elder care applications and the development of human augmentation technologies, mean that robots could be working alongside humans in looking after and rehabilitating people.” On a r...

In this clinical study, we have compared routine diagnostic dose (131)I scan and (99m)TcO4(-) thyroid scintigraphy with therapeutic dose (131)I imaging for accurate thyroid remnant estimation after total thyroidectomy. We conducted a retrospective review of the patients undergoing total thyroidectomy for differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) and subsequently receiving radioactive iodine (RAI) ...

Abstract Background Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pneumonitis associated with severe respiratory failure has a high mortality rate. Based on recent reports, the most severely ill patients present coagulopathy, and disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)-like massive clot formation is frequently observed. Coagulopathy emerged as significant contributor to thrombotic complications. Although...

UNLABELLED INTRODUCTION When a pulmonary nodular lesion is detected by F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography in a patient with post-surgical papillary thyroid carcinoma with undetectable serum-stimulated thyroglobulin levels and negative 131I whole body scan, diagnosis and management of the nodule may be confusing. CASE PRESENTATION We describe two post-s...

AIM To investigate the role of 18F-NaF PET/CT and compare it with 99m Tc-MDP whole body bone scintigraphy and 18F-FDG PET/CT in detecting the extent of metastatic bone disease and to present our first experience with 18F-NaF PET/CT in our country. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 37 histopathologically proven cancer patients (22 male, 15 female) with bone metastasis detected on Tc-99m MDP who...

BACKGROUND For tumour imaging with PET, the literature proposes to administer a patient-specific FDG activity that depends quadratically on a patient's body weight. However, a practical approach on how to implement such a protocol in clinical practice is currently lacking. We aimed to provide a practical method to determine a FDG activity formula for whole-body PET examinations that satisfies b...

Evaluation of scoliosis is performed traditionally by means of standing posterior-anterior radiographs of the full spine to assess lateral curvature with the Cobb method. In this paper, we present a new automatic algorithm to measure Cobb angle by using nuclear medicine whole body bone scan images. Our algorithm design is based on the fuzzy sets histogram thresholding, anatomical knowledge-base...

UNLABELLED Accurate staging of Hodgkin's disease (HD) and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) is important for treatment management. In this study, the utility of 2-[18F]fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) whole-body PET was evaluated as an imaging modality for initial staging or restaging of 7 HD and 11 NHL patients. METHODS Whole-body PET-based staging results were compared to the patient's clinical st...