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Open AccessTowards the OR of the future: introducing an adaptive and technology-embracing OR wing layout
Overageing and climate change cause a need for making processes in the operating room wing (OR wing) more efficient. While many promising technologies are available today, traditional OR wings are not designed...
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The hospital of the future: rethinking architectural design to enable new patient-centered treatment concepts
Today’s hospitals are designed as collections of individual departments, with limited communication and collaboration between medical sub-specialties. Patients are constantly being moved between different plac...
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A multicentric IT platform for storage and sharing of imaging-based radiation dosimetric data
The MEDIRAD project is about the effects of low radiation dose in the context of medical procedures. The goal of the work is to develop an informatics service that will provide the researchers of the MEDIRAD p...
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Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Density in the “Higher-Order” Thalamus Projecting to the Prefrontal Cortex in Humans: a PET Study
The parcellation of the thalamus into different nuclei involved in different corticothalamocortical loops reflects its functional diversity. The connections between the mediodorsal nucleus and the prefrontal c...
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Open AccessIntegrating radiomics into holomics for personalised oncology: from algorithms to bedside
Radiomics, artificial intelligence, and deep learning figure amongst recent buzzwords in current medical imaging research and technological development. Analysis of medical big data in assessment and follow-up...
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Recurrent prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy: restaging performance of 18F-choline hybrid PET/MRI
To evaluate the diagnostic performance of a whole-body 18F-choline (FCH) hybrid PET/MRI for prostate cancer patients at biochemical relapse after radical prostatectomy (RP) compared to pelvic multiparametric M...
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Nicotinic receptor abnormalities as a biomarker in idiopathic generalized epilepsy
Mutations of cholinergic neuronal nicotinic receptors have been identified in the autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (ADNFLE), associated with changes on PET images using [18F]-F-85380-A (F-A-8538...
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Prognostic value of revascularising viable myocardium in elderly patients with stable coronary artery disease and left ventricular dysfunction: a PET/CT study
Sparse information is available on the role of cardiac viability imaging in elderly patients. We aimed at evaluating the prognostic value of FDG-PET/CT in elderly patients with stable coronary artery disease (...
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Open AccessLocal recurrence of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck after radio(chemo)therapy: Diagnostic performance of FDG-PET/MRI with diffusion-weighted sequences
To determine the diagnostic performance of FDG-PET/MRI with diffusion-weighted imaging (FDG-PET/DWIMRI) for detection and local staging of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) after radio(chemo)therapy.
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PET/MRI in Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, and represented more than 25% of the newly diagnosed cancer cases in women in 2016. PET/CT is recommended in the clinical workup of advanced breast c...
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Open AccessPannexin1 links lymphatic function to lipid metabolism and atherosclerosis
Extracellular ATP is a central signaling molecule in inflammatory responses. Pannexin1 (Panx1) channels release ATP in a controlled manner and have been implicated in various inflammatory pathologies, but thei...
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Open AccessPACS for Bhutan: a cost effective open source architecture for emerging countries
This paper reports the design and implementation of an innovative and cost-effective imaging management infrastructure suitable for radiology centres in emerging countries. It was implemented in the main refer...
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Clinical utility of 18F-FDG-PET/MR for preoperative breast cancer staging
To evaluate the performance of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography magnetic resonance imaging (PET/MR) for preoperative breast cancer staging.
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[ \({}^{11}\hbox {C}\) ]acetate and PET/CT assessment of muscle activation in rat studies
The purpose of the present study is to apply kinetic analysis to investigate exercise-related changes in the metabolism of the skeletal muscle of the rat hindlimb by [
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Adapting anatomy teaching to surgical trends: a combination of classical dissection, medical imaging, and 3D-printing technologies
Many regions worldwide report difficulties in recruiting applicants to surgery. One strategy proposed to reverse this trend consists of early exposure of medical students to the field. Against this backdrop, t...
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Open AccessSocial media for radiologists: an introduction
Social media, which can be defined as dynamic and interactive online communication forums, are becoming increasingly popular, not only for the general public but also for radiologists. In addition to assisting...
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All-in-one interictal presurgical imaging in patients with epilepsy: single-session EEG/PET/(f)MRI
In patients with pharmacoresistant focal epilepsy, resection of the epileptic focus can lead to freedom from seizures or significant improvement in well-selected candidates. Localization of the epileptic focus...
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Open AccessStructured reporting: a fusion reactor hungry for fuel
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Open AccessFDG-PET/CT pitfalls in oncological head and neck imaging
Positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET/CT) with fluorine-18-fluorodeoxy-D-glucose (FDG) has evolved from a research modality to an invaluable tool in head and neck cancer imaging. However, inter...
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Potential of hybrid 18F-fluorocholine PET/MRI for prostate cancer imaging
To report the first results of hybrid 18F-fluorocholine PET/MRI imaging for the detection of prostate cancer.
