No commercially available detector system can measure alpha, beta and gamma-rays at the same time separately with good efficiency, while being cost-effective, portable offering real-time monitoring. The main purpose of an alpha-beta-gamma would be for safety management nuclear decommissioning in industry. This idea a became more valuable, after Fukushima Japan, because waste contain fission pro...

Standard practice requires the use of Tc–labeled radiopharmaceuticals for SLNB. The presence of F-FDG in study subjects results in greater than normal background signal being detected by the handheld gamma probe used for SLNB, due to the down-scatter of 511keV Fluorine-18 (F) gamma photons into the Tc energy window. This cross-talk background could potentially hinder detection of low-activity S...

We present a case of tenosynovitis caused by a novel, slowly growing, nonchromogenic, nontuberculous mycobacterium (NTM). Originally misidentified as Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, the NTM cross-reacts with the M. tuberculosis complex nucleic acid hybridization probe, a M. tuberculosis gamma interferon release assay, and is closely related to M. tuberculosis by 16S rRNA gene sequencing.

Higgs production in association with a photon at hadron colliders is rare process, not yet observed the LHC. We show that this process sensitive to significant deviations of couplings first- and second-generation SM quarks (particularly up type) from their values, we use multivariate neural network analysis derive prospects High Luminosity LHC probe charm Yukawa through $h+\ensuremath{\gamma}$ ...

An elderly lady was diagnosed with primary hyperparathyroidism after being admitted to hospital with pyelonephritis and constipation. A sestamibi parathyroid scan demonstrated increased uptake in the upper mediastinum, suggesting an ectopic mediastinal parathyroid adenoma. The 4-mm adenoma was successfully removed through a mini-sternotomy incision using a gamma probe to identify the gland from...

IFN-gamma production is dramatically reduced in T cells from mice bearing large mammary tumors. This inhibition of IFN-gamma gene expression occurs mostly in CD4+ T cells, as determined by ELISA and reverse transcriptase-PCR. The effects of known mammary tumor factors in normal T cells and its subsets were evaluated. Pretreatment with granulocyte-macrophage CSF resulted in increased IFN-gamma l...

We demonstrate, using a recombinant truncated Fc gamma RII molecule as a probe, the presence of anti-Fc gamma R antibodies in several strains of autoimmune mice. Affinity chromatography on a truncated Fc gamma R column of pooled sera from aged NZB females resulted in isolation of 16 micrograms of IgM per ml of serum, approximately 2% of the total IgM; no anti-Fc gamma R IgM was found in sera fr...

BACKGROUND: Radioisotope bone scanning is frequently used to stage patients with suspected or proven malignancies. Since false-positive results are common, especially in the ribs, open biopsy is often necessary. The conventional approach of visual inspection of the bone scan image to guide the surgeon usually requires excision of a large area of one or two ribs to assure that the biopsy was per...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the performance and feasibility of sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer patients using technetium-99m (99mTc) sulphur colloid and gamma probe. METHODS From May 2000 to March 2001, 70 patients with a tumour less than 5 cm with clinically negative axillary lymph nodes underwent sentinel node biopsy followed by standard axillary dissection. 99mTc sulphur colloid was ...