Cue reactivity and craving can be influenced by cue exposure with response prevention (CERP). This study investigated the neural correlates of CERP using functional magnetic resonance imaging, while participants smelled chocolate (17 participants) or a control object (17 participants). CERP was interrupted by 7 scanning sequences measuring the brain response to neutral and chocolate pictures. C...

a 36-year-old woman with right upper quadrant abdominal pain since three months previously and no other significant medical history was referred for evaluation of an abdominal mass. upon clinical examination, a large palpable mass in the mid -upper abdominal area was noted. abdominal ultrasound and spiral ct-scan showed a large hepatic mass in the left liver lobe. the patient was referred for t...

Malta Medical Journal Volume 20 Issue 1 March 2008 Introduction The concept of carrying a cytotoxic radionuclide directly to cancerous cells is an attractive alternative to conventional forms of radiation treatment. The very close contact between the radionuclide and the cell to be destroyed enables the absorbed radiation to be concentrated at the site of abnormality with the minimal injury to ...

Conservative management was more effective than invasive management in acute non-Q-wave MI D Massel Evidence-Based Medicine 1998;3:177 This is a summary and appraisal of a randomised controlled trial of 920 patients with non-Q-wave myocardial infarction.' The two groups of patients were invasiveangiography and appropriate revascularisation-or conservative-radionuclide ventriculography and thall...

introduction natural and artificial radionuclides are the main sources of human radiation exposure, which enter the food chain from the environment. radionuclides can affect human health by transferring from soil to plants and entering the human body. in this research study, we aimed to determine the activity concentrations of radionuclides and calculate the average annual committed effective d...

In internal radionuclide therapy, a growing interest in voxel-level estimates of tissue-absorbed dose has been driven by the desire to report radiobiologic quantities that account for the biologic consequences of both spatial and temporal nonuniformities in these dose estimates. This report presents an overview of 3-dimensional SPECT methods and requirements for internal dosimetry at both regio...

To assess ventricular function in patients who have undergone cardiac transplantation, 247 radionuclide ventriculograms were performed on 94 patients. During the first three days after transplantation, 19% demonstrated left ventricular dysfunction and 41% showed isolated right ventricular dysfunction. In 95 cases, radionuclide ventriculography was performed within 24 hr of myocardial biopsy. A ...