Nuclear medicine plays a pivotal role in the imaging and treatment of neuroendocrine tumours (NETs). Somatostatin receptor scintigraphy (SRS) with [In-DTPA]octreotide has proven its role in the diagnosis and staging of gastroenteropancreatic NETs (GEP-NETs). New techniques in somatostatin receptor imaging include the use of different radiolabelled somatostatin analogues with higher affinity and...

Nuclear medical imaging is a well established method for obtaining information on the status of certain organs within the human body or in animals. This paper presents an overview of two commonly used methods, namely SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) and PET (positron emission tomography), as well as the emerging method of intraoperative probes with imaging capability. The disc...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Inflammation is a key player in a wide range of cardiovascular and myocardial diseases. Given the numerous implications of inflammatory processes in disease initiation and progression, functional imaging modalities including positron emission tomography (PET) represent valuable diagnostic, prognostic, and monitoring tools in patient management. Since increased glucose metaboli...

The strict safety regulations for nuclear reactor control make it difficult to implement new control techniques such as fuzzy logic control (FLC). FLC however, can provide very desirable advantages over classical control, like robustness, adaptation and the capability to include human experience into the controller. Simple fuzzy logic controllers have been implemented for a few nuclear research...

by R.D. Piyasena, A. Cuaron, and M. Nofal is a major health problem of our times. Expectations that a single causative agent — and thus a single cure — would be identified have now been dispelled and current medical opinion favours the view that each cancer is unique and needs an individual approach. Many factors such as smoking, betel chewing, viral agents, and ultraviolet light have been iden...

A N important question concerning embryonic differentiation is whether the nuclei of somatic cells in different parts of an embryo come to differ genetically from each other during development. It has become possible to investigate this matter since King & Briggs (1955) have shown that nuclear transplantation is a satisfactory technique for testing the developmental potentialities of embryonic ...

This paper reports on electrofusion of Tetrahymena thermophila and on the reorganization of the cytoskeleton in fused cells. Important factors influencing the fusion yield are the number of electric pulses, the strength of alternate current field and cell density. The process of cell fusion consists of a mutual intermingling of cell membranes following their deformation at the contact zone, fol...

Nuclear medicine uses radiation to provide diagnostic information about the functioning of a person's specific organs, or to treat them. Diagnostic procedures are now routine.. Radiotherapy can be used to treat some medical conditions, especially cancer, using radiation to weaken or destroy particular targeted cells. Millions of nuclear medicine procedures are performed each year, and demand fo...

There are two main Nuclear Medicine techniques, the gastroesophageal reflux scintigraphy with late lung imaging and the nuclear salivagram, for diagnosis of pulmonary aspiration. Each of the techniques can document the two different, antegrade and retrograde, routes of pulmonary aspiration. In this report, we presented a patient with recurrent respiratory problems and emphasized the importance ...