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Current Status of Computerized Decision Support Systems in Mammography
Breast cancer is one of the most devastating and deadly diseases for women today. Despite advances in cancer treatment, early mammographic detection...
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Analysis and Architecture of Clinical Workflow Systems using Agent-Oriented Lifecycle Models
Healthcare executives are grappling with a climate of great change in the healthcare industry. This is coming from a number of sources. First, there...
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Development of Technetium-99m and Rhenium-188 Radiopharmaceuticals Containing a Terminal Metal–Nitrido Multiple Bond for Diagnosis and Therapy
The chemistry of nitrido complexes of technetium has played an important role in the search of new Tc-99m radiopharmaceuticals and in providing...
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Monitoring Multidrug Resistance P-Glycoprotein Drug Transport Activity with Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography and Positron Emission Tomography Radiopharmaceuticals
Multidrug resistance (MDR) mediated by overexpression of MDR1 P-glycoprotein (Pgp) is one of the best characterized transporter-mediated barriers to...
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Case-based Medical Informatics
The “applied” nature distinguishes applied sciences from theoretical sciences. To emphasize this distinction, we begin with a general, meta-level...
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Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis Based on the DNA Microarray Technology
Immense genomic data have been accumulated through various research activities such as the Human Genome Project. A genome is the entire collection of...
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Computerization of Clinical Guidelines: an Application of Medical Document Processing
Clinical Guidelines are being developed as a tool to promote Best Practice in Medicine. They are usually defined as “systematically developed...
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Wearable Devices in Healthcare
The miniaturization of electrical and electronic equipment is certainly not a new phenomenon, and its effects have long been evident in the...
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Rhenium and Technetium Complexes Anchored by Phosphines and Scorpionates for Radiopharmaceutical Applications
This review presents a comprehensive overview of the most significant developments in the chemistry of technetium and rhenium complexes anchored by...
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Radiopharmaceuticals for Positron Emission Tomography Imaging of Somatostatin Receptor Positive Tumors
The targeting of somatostatin receptors in tumors has been a goal in cancer treatment and diagnosis since the 1980s. Over the past two decades, great...
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Evidence Based Telemedicine
This chapter focuses on evidence based telemedicine and its various applications. Evidence based medicine is the integration of best research...
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Virtual Communities in Health Care
A virtual community is a social entity involving several individuals who relate to one another by the use of a specific communication technology that...
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6-Hydrazinonicotinamide Derivatives as Bifunctional Coupling Agents for 99mTc-Labeling of Small Biomolecules
99mTc-labeled small biomolecules are a class of receptor-based, target specific radiopharmaceuticals for the detection of various diseases, such as...
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Radiolabeled Integrin αvβ3 Antagonists as Radiopharmaceuticals for Tumor Radiotherapy
Integrins are a family of proteins that facilitate cellular adhesion to and migration on the extracellular matrix proteins found in intercellular...
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New Organometallic Technetium Complexes for Radiopharmaceutical Imaging
It is the objective of this review to introduce the reader to the current status of organometallic chemistry, oriented towards the development of...
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[18F]-D3FSP β-amyloid PET imaging in older adults and alzheimer’s disease
Purpose[ 18 F]-D3FSP is a new β-amyloid (Aβ) PET imaging tracer designed to decrease nonspecific signals in the brain by reducing the formation of the...
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Prospective investigation of amino acid transport and PSMA-targeted positron emission tomography for metastatic lobular breast carcinoma
PurposeTo explore the feasibility of imaging amino-acid transport and PSMA molecular pathways in the detection of metastatic breast invasive lobular...
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Seracam: characterisation of a new small field of view hybrid gamma camera for nuclear medicine
BackgroundPortable gamma cameras are being developed for nuclear medicine procedures such as thyroid scintigraphy. This article introduces Seracam® –...
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A Cost-Affordable Methodology of 3D Printing of Bone Fractures Using DICOM Files in Traumatology
Three-dimensional (3D) printing has gained popularity across various domains but remains less integrated into medical surgery due to its complexity....
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Presentation of metastatic carotid body paraganglioma on F-18 FDG PET/CT: a rare disease
Carotid body paraganglioma is a slow growing tumor of head and neck region. It can rarely be malignant in nature which is characterized by distant...
