Introduction Bacterial infection is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality especially in developing countries. Nuclear medicine has an important role in helping the diagnosis of deep-seated infections by developing more specific radiopharmaceuticals. The aim of this study was to evaluate 99mTc-labeling ceftriaxone as a new radiopharmaceutical for Staphylococcus aureus infection imag...

Objective(s): Nuclear medicine technologists in Japan often perform additional single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) with or without computed tomography (CT) after whole-body imaging for bone scintigraphy. In this study, we wanted to identify the bone scanning protocols used in Japan, together with the current clinical practices. Methods:...

The regular supply of radiopharmaceuticals and radioimmunoassay kits from BARC has been an important factor in the deveIopment of nuclear medicine in India. However, a major stumbling block has been the non-avai labi l i ty of sui table instrumentat ion systems (especial ly the computer-assisted gamma camera) at an affordable price. Two recent developments, viz., the creation of the Board bf Ra...

09:00 09:25 Coffee and registration 09:25 09:30 Introduction 09:30 10:00 Quantification of the Renogram: Deconvolution and Patlak/Rutland Plot Prof Richard Lawson, Central Manchester Nuclear Medicine Centre, Manchester 10:00 10:30 Improving quantification via multi-modality imaging Prof Brian Hutton, University College London 10:30 11:00 Coffee, Posters and Exhibiton 11:00 11:20 Use of the CT S...

This second edition atlas presents 166 cases. Purchasing the book also entitles you to 12 months’ access to further cases online. The book is divided into 14 sections covering all the expected areas of imaging including 23 positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) cases, 11 cardiac cases including single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and PET, and a section on radio...

widespread studies on tumor diagnosis has led to the development of techniques with greater sensitivity and improved specificity for detection of occult and small subclinical tumors. tumor imaging by radiolabeling of tumor-specific antibodies (immunoscintigraphy) or tissue specific biochemical agents (receptor imaging) and especially physiologic imaging with positron emitters (pet), have opened...

Iran has a rich civilization and a long history during which medical science flourished at specific periods. For instance, medicine blossomed in Sassanids era (226 - 652 AD). One of the most remarkable cultural and scientific centers of Sassanids era was the city of Gondishapur located in the south-west Iran in Shah-Abad near Susa in Khuzestan Province. The city was rebuilt in the third century...

From the second half of the twentieth century, advances in biological and psychopharmacological research seemed to promise a swift discovery of an organic basis of psychiatric diseases. Today we know that biological research in psychiatry is not a success story. This may be due to the complicated character of psychiatric disorders, where it is difficult to establish a unified model of the disea...

Nuclear medicine is a diagnostic imaging modality that is used to obtain clinical information about most of the major tissues and organs of the body. Diagnostic information is obtained from the way the tissues and organs process radiolabeled compounds (radiopharmaceuticals). The radiopharmaceutical is typically administered to the patient though an intravenous injection. The radiopharmaceutical...

Digitalfilteringisa powerfulmathematicaltechniqueincomputeranalysisofnu clear medicinestudies.The basic conceptsof object-domainand frequency-do main filteringare presentedin simple,largelynonmathematicalterms. Computa tional methodsare describedusingboth the Fouriertransformand convolution techniques.Thefrequencyresponseisdescribedandusedto representthe behav br of several classes of filters. ...