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Rodent Leukocyte Isolation and Radiolabeling for Inflammation Imaging Study
The objective of this study was to describe to develop methods of rodent leukocyte isolation and radiolabeling for in vivo inflammation imaging.
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Radioactivity Reduction of 2-Deoxy-2-[18F] Fluoro-D-Glucose by Milk and Ursodeoxycholic Acid in Preclinical Study
2-Deoxy-2-[18F] fluoro-d-glucose positron emission tomography (18F-FDG-PET) is a less-invasive and widely used diagnostic tool for detection of malignant tumors. However, prolonged retention of 18F-FDG in the bod...
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Curcumin Encapsulated Micellar Nanoplatform for Blue Light Emitting Diode Induced Apoptosis as a New Class of Cancer Therapy
Blue light emitting diode (BLED) were known to inhibit cancer proliferation and induced apoptotic cell death by increasing intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) and caspase activation. However, not many ...
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Open AccessCommon features of F-18 FDG PET/CT findings in Scrub Typhus: prospective study before and after antibiotics therapy
Scrub typhus is an acute febrile illness caused by obligate intracellular organism Orientia tsutsugamushi. While there have been many reports on the evaluation of disease activity and infectious diseases using F-...
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Facile synthesis of near-infrared CuInS2/ZnS quantum dots and glycol-chitosan coating for in vivo imaging
This study describes the synthesis method of water-soluble, low-toxicity, photostable highly luminescent probes based on I–III–VI2 type semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) and the possibility of tumor targeting in l...
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Clinical Value of a One-Stop-Shop Low-Dose Lung Screening Combined with 18F-FDG PET/CT for the Detection of Metastatic Lung Nodules from Colorectal Cancer
The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical usefulness of additional low-dose high-resolution lung computed tomography (LD-HRCT) combined with 18F-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography with CT...
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The Alginate Layer for Improving Doxorubicin Release and Radiolabeling Stability of Chitosan Hydrogels
Chitosan hydrogels (CSH) formed through ionic interaction with an anionic molecule are suitable as a drug carrier and a tissue engineering scaffold. However, the initial burst release of drugs from the CSH due...
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Open AccessA phase II clinical trial to investigate the effect of pioglitazone on 18F-FDG uptake in malignant lesions
We found that 18F-2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (18F-FDG) uptake in malignant lesion was enhanced, and it was decreased in the inflammatory lesion after the use of peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-γ (PPAR-...
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Evaluation of Selective Arterial Embolization Effect by Chitosan Micro-Hydrogels in Hindlimb Sarcoma Rodent Models Using Various Imaging Modalities
Embolization is mainly used to reduce the size of locally advanced tumors. In this study, selective arterial catheterization with chitosan micro-hydrogels (CMH) into the femoral artery was performed and the th...
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Comparison of Therapeutic Efficacy and Clinical Parameters Between Recombinant Human Thyroid Stimulating Hormone and Thyroid Hormone Withdrawal in High-Dose Radioiodine Treatment with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
High-dose radioiodine treatment (HD-RIT) after injection of recombinant human thyroid stimulating hormone (rh-TSH) has become widely used. This study compared the therapeutic efficacy of HD-RIT and clinical pa...
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The Clinical Value of Hybrid Sentinel Lymphoscintigraphy to Predict Metastatic Sentinel Lymph Nodes in Breast Cancer
Hybrid imaging techniques can provide functional and anatomical information about sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer. Our aim in this study was to evaluate which imaging parameters on hybrid sentinel lympho...
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Effect of Angiogenesis Induced by Consecutive Intramuscular Injections of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in a Hindlimb Ischemic Mouse Model
Angiogenesis plays a major role in various physiological and pathological situations. Thus, an angiogenic therapy with vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) has been commonly recommended as a representativ...
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Radiolabeled chitosan hydrogel containing VEGF enhances angiogenesis in a rodent model of acute myocardial infarction
Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) plays a pivotal role in angiogenesis in an infarcted myocardium. The purpose of the current investigation was to validate whether a radiolabeled VEGF delivery system c...
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Pretreatment F-18 FDG PET/CT Parameters to Evaluate Progression-Free Survival in Gastric Cancer
We performed this study to evaluate the predictive value of pretreatment F-18 FDG PET/CT for progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with gastric cancer.
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Comparison of the Influence on the Liver Function Between Thyroid Hormone Withdrawal and rh-TSH Before High-Dose Radioiodine Therapy in Patients with Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
An elevated thyroid stimulating hormone level (TSH) is essential to stimulate the uptake of radioiodine into thyroid remnants and metastases of thyroid cancer when a patient undergoes high-dose radioiodine the...
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F-18 FDG PET/CT Findings of Spontaneous Mesenteric Fibromatosis in a Patient with Gardner’s Syndrome
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Before and after treatment 18F-FDG PET/CT images in a patient with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma
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‘Hot liver’ on 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging in a patient with hepatosplenic tuberculosis
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Unusual Case of Occult Brucella Osteomyelitis in the Skull Detected by Bone Scintigraphy
Brucellosis is a worldwide infectious disease of animals that can be transmitted to humans. Osteoarticular involvement is the most common complication of brucellosis. A 47-year-old man, who was a stockbreeder,...
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Recent Trends in the Nucleophilic [18F]-radiolabeling Method with No-carrier-added [18F]fluoride
Noninvasive imaging in living subjects with positron emission tomography (PET) provides early detection of diseases in humans. For this application, it is necessary to prepare specific molecular imaging probes...
