Development of a small area (1–2 cm) in situ beta imaging device includes optimization of the front end scintillation detector, which is fiber optically coupled to a remote photon detector. Thin plastic scintillation detectors, which are sensitive to charged particles, are the ideal detectors due to the low sensitivity to ambient gamma backgrounds. The light output of a new binary plastic scint...

OBJECTIVE Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography imaging in the follow-up of patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma who have high serum thyroglobulin, negative iodine-131 whole body scan and suppressed thyrotropin. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 90 patients (31 male and 59 female) with differentiated thyroid carcinoma who have high serum thyroglobulin and...

The present study aimed to develop a monoclonal antibody (mAb)-based double functional probe for PET and near-infrared fluorescence (NIRF) targeting CD20 and to cross validate the targeting efficacy of this dual functional probe. NuB2, anti CD20 mAb was conjugated with Alexa Fluor 750 and 64Cu through DOTA chelator. PET and NIRF imaging was carried out at 30 min and 24 h post-injection with 64C...

F(0)F(1)-ATP synthases couple proton translocation with the synthesis of ATP from ADP and phosphate. The enzyme has three catalytic nucleotide binding sites, one on each beta-subunit; three non-catalytic binding sites are located mainly on each alpha-subunit. In order to observe substrate binding to the enzyme, the H(+)-ATP synthase from Escherichia coli was labelled selectively with the fluore...

Results HRs for overall mortality changed markedly over time, most notably for persons in same-sex marriage. In 2000–2011, opposite-sex married persons (reference, HR1⁄4 1) had consistently lower mortality than persons in other marital status categories in women (HRs 1.37–1.89) and men (HRs 1.37–1.66). Mortality was particularly high for same-sex married women (HR1⁄4 1.89), notably from suicide...

Gamma transparent materials are necessary to avoid detection Development of a small area (1-2 cm2) in situ beta imaging device includes optimization of the front end scintillation detector which is fiber optically coupled to a remote photon detector. Thin plastic scintillation detectors, which are sensitive to charged particles, are the ideal detectors due to the low sensitivity to ambient gamm...