Benign metastasizing leiomyomas are benign disseminated extrauterine tumors in patients with prior history of uterine leiomyomas and may occur years after hysterectomy. The lung is mostly affected, ...

Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) has fundamentally reshaped prostate cancer imaging and therapy, delivering an unprecedented combination of high lesion conspicuity, broad clinical ...

Radiopharmaceutical cold kits for labeling with 99m Tc contain Sn(II) for reduction of technetium to lower oxidation states that are chemically reactive to specific ligands. Besides these ligands, the ...

In contrast to the SS mode variation of , which is discrete in its axial profile for each bed, in CBM mode depends on how the slice moves across the detector. We compared the counting efficiencies of ...

Quantitative analysis using SUVs from PET has been performed in the clinical setting to decide treatment strategies and predict recurrence after treatment (1,2). With the recent development of ...

Sincalide (Kinevac) is widely used in conjunction with cholescintigraphy for a variety of clinical indications. Over the years, numerous publications have verified the optimal infusion methodology.

Before CT came into use, planar radiography and fluoroscopy comprised all non–nuclear medicine uses of ionizing radiation in imaging. In those types of examinations, the radiation dose to the patient ...

The World Health Organization cites lung cancer as the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Lung cancer is second in the list of newly diagnosed cancers, surpassing colon, prostate, skin, ...

The gallbladder stores and concentrates bile. Bile is a mixture of salts and lipids that break down fat and are released into the duodenum during digestion (1). Cholecystokinin, which is released by ...

Diuretic renal scintigraphy plays a critical diagnostic role by providing a physiologic means for differentiating between obstructive and nonobstructive hydronephrosis and by assessing the function of ...

In the acquisition of brain SPECT images, various interactions (e.g., image reconstruction, attenuation correction [AC], and scatter correction [SC]) should be considered. The influence of these ...

In recent years, there has been an influx of new tracers into the field of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging. Most of those that have been Food and Drug Administration–approved for clinical ...