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Time course of metabolic findings in coronary occlusion and reperfusion and their role for assessing myocardial salvage
The techniques currently used to assess myocardial infarction are limited in their ability to determine the amount of viable myocardium after a temporary ischemic event. Blood flow and segmental function may n...
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Imaging of metabolism and autonomic innervation of the heart by positron emission tomography
Positron emission tomography (PET) allows, in combination with multiple radiopharmaceuticals, unique physiological and biochemical tissue characterization. Tracers of blood flow, metabolism and neuronal functi...
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Whole-body positron emission tomography in clinical oncology: Comparison between attenuation-corrected and uncorrected images
The clinical need for attenuation correction of whole-body positron emission tomography (PET) images is controversial, especially because of the required increase in imaging time. In this study, regional trace...
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Regional myocardial wall thickening and global ejection fraction in patients with low angiographic left ventricular ejection fraction assessed by visual and quantitative resting ECG-gated 99mTc-tetrofosmin single-photon emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging
We investigated the use of visual and quantitative technetium 99m tetrofosmin ECG-gated single-photon emission tomography (SPET) for the assessment of regional myocardial wall thickening (WT) and left ventric...
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Reproducibility of polar map generation and assessment of defect severity and extent assessment in myocardial perfusion imaging using positron emission tomography
The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability of new software developed for the analysis of cardiac tomographic data. The algorithm delineates the long axis and defines the basal plane and subseq...
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Metaiodobenzylguanidine scintigraphy of the heart: what have we learnt clinically?
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Non-invasive estimation of myocardial efficiency using positron emission tomography and carbon-11 acetate – comparison between the normal and failing human heart
The clearance kinetics of carbon-11 acetate, assessed by positron emission tomography (PET),can be combined with measurements of ventricular function for non-invasive estimation of myocardial oxygen consumptio...
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In vivo imaging of herpes simplex virus type 1 thymidine kinase gene expression: early kinetics of radiolabelled FIAU
Previous studies have shown that the herpes simplex virus type 1 thymidine kinase gene (HSV1-tk), in combination with appropriate radiolabelled substrates (e.g. [I*]-2’-fluoro-2’-deoxy-5-iodo-1-β-d-arabinofuranos...
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O-(2-[18F]Fluoroethyl)-l-tyrosine and l-[methyl-11C]methionine uptake in brain tumours: initial results of a comparative study
O-(2-[18F]Fluoroethyl)-l-tyrosine (FET) is a recently described amino acid analogue that has shown high accumulation in animal tumours. The aim of this study was to compare the uptake of FET with that of l-[meth...
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Non-invasive assessment of the effect of cardiac sympathetic innervation on metabolism of the human heart
The role of cardiac sympathetic nerves in the regulation of myocardial metabolism is not well defined. Owing to the presence of incomplete reinnervation, heart transplant recipients provide a unique model to ...
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Global and regional functional measurements with gated FDG PET in comparison with left ventriculography
The purpose of this study was to validate the measurement of global and regional left ventricular cardiac function with ECG-gated fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) by comp...
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A prototype high-resolution animal positron tomograph with avalanche photodiode arrays and LSO crystals
To fully utilize positron emission tomography (PET) as a non-invasive tool for tissue characterization, dedicated instrumentation is being developed which is specially suited for imaging mice and rats. Semicon...
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Comparison of radioiodinated TOC, TOCA and Mtr-TOCA: the effect of carbohydration on the pharmacokinetics
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PET imaging with [11C]methyl-L-methionine for therapy monitoring in patients with rectal cancer
In this study we evaluated whether positron emission tomography (PET) using the amino acid [11C]methyl-L-methionine (MET) may be used for therapy monitoring in patients with rectal cancer who are undergoing preo...
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Deferoxamine improves coronary vascular responses to sympathetic stimulation in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus
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O-(2-[18F]Fluoroethyl)-L-tyrosine (FET): a tracer for differentiation of tumour from inflammation in murine lymph nodes
High uptake of [18F]fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) by inflammatory cells is a frequent cause of false positive results in lymph node (LN) staging by positron emission tomography. Previous studies suggest that ra...
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Biodistribution and kinetics of 131I-labelled anti-CD20 MAB IDEC-C2B8 (rituximab) in relapsed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
The native chimeric human-mouse anti-CD20 antibody IDEC-C2B8 (rituximab) is therapeutically applied in relapsed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the distribution and pha...
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Dysregulation of coronary microvascular reactivity in asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
In diabetic patients, a number of studies have suggested an impairment of vascular reactivity in response to vasodilatory stimuli. The pattern of dysregulation at the coronary microcirculatory level, however,...
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Highlights of the 15th Annual Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine, Vienna, 2002