OBJECTIVE To explore the feasibility of shrinking field technique after 40 Gy radiation through 18F-FDG PET/ CT during treatment for patients with stage III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). METHODS In 66 consecutive patients with local-advanced NSCLC, 18F-FDG PET/CT scanning was performed prior to treatment and repeated after 40 Gy. Conventionally fractionated IMRT or CRT plans to a median...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Because (18)F-FDG PET/CT can display cancer lesion morphology, size and the relatinship of the cancer lesion to adjacent tissues, it is used in the diagnosis and classification of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). This study was to explore the application value of (18)F-FDG PET/CT in TNM staging by comparing the performance of MRI and PET/CT together with pathological resul...

It has been postulated that glucose transport is the principal site of skeletal muscle insulin resistance in obesity and type 2 diabetes, though a distribution of control between glucose transport and phosphorylation has also been proposed. The current study examined whether the respective contributions of transport and phosphorylation to insulin resistance are modulated across a dose range of ...

increased metabolic activity in muscle secondary to excessive muscle activity during the uptake phase and shortly before fdg injection is a known phenomenon. we present fdg pet/ct findings in a young male, known case of carcinoma maxilla his scan showed diffuse increased metabolic activity in multiple skeletal muscle groups. there was history of unaccustomed, strenuous sports activity of skiing...

The impact of estrogen on brain function, especially in individuals with diabetes, remains uncertain. This study aims to compare cerebral glucose metabolism levels intact rats, ovariectomized (OVX) and 17β-estradiol (E2)-treated OVX diabetic female rats. Sixteen rats were administered a single intraperitoneal injection 70 mg/kg streptozotocin (STZ) induce diabetes (intact, n = 6; OVX, OVX+E2-tr...

Central neurocytoma is a benign neuronal tumor with a favorable prognosis. This tumor is typically characterized by decreased uptake of 18F-fluorodeoxy glucose (FDG) and any increased uptake of FDG in patients suffering from this tumor would be highly unusual. A case of central neurocytoma with an intense FDG uptake, combined with atypical histopathological features and a high proliferation ind...

Pyothorax-associated lymphoma (PAL) is a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma developing in the pleural cavity after a long-standing history of chronic pyothorax (CP). F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) imaging is a useful modality for determination of disease extent of various malignant tumors, including malignant lymphoma, but there have been no reports describing the usefulness...

BACKGROUND 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) has become an established method for detecting hypermetabolic sites of known and occult disease and is widely used in oncology surgical planning. Intraoperatively, it is often difficult to localize tumors and verify complete resection of tumors that have been previously detected on diagnostic P...

Purpose: To assess the role of 3'-deoxy-3'-F-fluoro-thymidine (F-FLT) and 2'-deoxy-2'-F-fluorodeoxy-glucose (F-FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) imaging in the evaluation of the therapeutic effects of radiotherapy during treatment of lung adenocarcinoma. Methods: Eighteen mice with lung adenocarcinoma were randomly divided into 2 groups; each group was randomly paired and evenly divided i...

BACKGROUND We introduced a hypometabolic convergence index (HCI) to characterize in a single measurement the extent to which a person's fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomogram (FDG PET) corresponds to that in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Apolipoprotein E ε4 (APOE ε4) gene dose is associated with three levels of risk for late-onset AD. We explored the association between gene dose and HCI in ...