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Sep 15, 2023 –
Since the introduction of SPECT/CT two decades ago, it has rapidly grown and changed in clinical applications. What started as being solely for attenuation purposes now provides dual-modality simultaneous diagnostic imaging (1). This development has
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May 7, 2024 –
The protein galectin-1 (Gal-1) has been identified as a new PET imaging biomarker for immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy, allowing physicians to predict the tumor responses before beginning treatment. Information garnered from Gal-1 PET imaging
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Mar 20, 2012 –
EMEA has approved 90Y-radiolabelled ibritumomab tiuxetan, Zevalin® , in Europe for the treatment of adult patients with rituximab-relapsed or -refractory CD20+ follicular Bcell non-Hodgkin´s lymphoma (NHL) in January 2004. The number of European nucl
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Sep 29, 2013 –
Purpose The accurate harvesting of a sentinel node in breast cancer includes a sequence of procedures with components from different medical specialities, including nuclear medicine, radiology, surgical oncology and pathology. The aim of this documen
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Oct 28, 2013 –
In 2008 the EANM published their paediatric dosage card. In 2011 the North American consensus guidelines recommended a set of administered activities for paediatric nuclear medicine. During the EANM congress in 2012 a working group of the EANM and th
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Jan 25, 2013 –
Peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRNT) is a molecularly targeted radiation therapy involving the systemic administration of a radiolabelled peptide designed to target with high affinity and specificity receptors overexpressed on tumours. PRRNT
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Jan 7, 2014 –
The accurate harvesting of a sentinel node in gynaecological cancer (i.e. vaginal, vulvar, cervical, endometrial or ovarian cancer) includes a sequence of procedures with components from different medical specialities (nuclear medicine, radiology, su
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Jul 7, 2015 –
Purpose Sentinel lymph node biopsy is an essential staging tool in patients with clinically localized melanoma. The harvesting of a sentinel lymph node entails a sequence of procedures with participation of specialists in nuclear medicine, radiology,
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Jan 30, 2016 –
Extracellular deposition of Aβ peptides (or “plaques”) is one of the pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease (AD)i . The recent developments of molecular imaging tracers that bind to Aβ plaques in the brain have enabled in vivo detection of Aβ
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Jun 21, 2018 –
Renal scans are safe and widely available tests that provide information about the morphology and function of the kidneys utilizing radiopharmaceuticals with high renal clearance (Sfakianakis, 1988). This information supplements that obtained by oth
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Jun 22, 2018 –
With the increasing use of sonography, dilatation of the pelvicalyceal system (hydronephrosis, HN) or ureter (hydroureteronephrosis, HUN) is the most common abnormality of the urinary tract detected in utero or after birth. Common causes of congenita
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Jan 27, 2018 –
Large vessel vasculitis (LVV) is defined as a disease affecting mainly large arteries, with two major variants, Takayasu arteritis (TA) and giant cell arteritis (GCA). GCA often coexists together with PMR in the same patient, since both belong to the
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Apr 30, 2019 –
Diverse radionuclide imaging techniques are available for the diagnosis, staging, and follow-up of phaeochromocytoma and paraganglioma (PPGL). Beyond their ability to detect and localise the disease, these imaging approaches variably characterise the
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