Radioiodine whole body scan.Purpose: whole body scan (WBS) performed following diagnostic or therapeutic administration of I-131 is useful in patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma. However, it can be falsely positive in various circumstances. We aimed to report a series of pitfalls in a ...
Immune checkpoint inhibitors activate the body's immune system against tumors. Although this cancer treatment has shown remarkable success, the patient's chance of responding to the treatment remains unpredictable. Scientists at the University Medical Center Groningen have performed whole-body PET scans u...
The reconstruction time of BSREM and OSEM algorithms on a 5-ring DMI scanner are 3.2 and 1.1 min per bed position, respectively, with DLE additional processing for a whole-body scan only ~ 5 s. Therefore, DLE can provide an image quality comparable to BSREM in almost one ...
Whole-body MRI (WB-MRI) is an imaging modality which scans the patient's entire body from head to toe to detect cancer lesions. From: Seminars in Nuclear Medicine, 2022 About this pageSet alert Also in subject area: Nursing and Health ProfessionsDiscover other topics On this page Definition...
Introduction: Bone scan as an appropriate procedure with high sensitivity and moderate specificity is currently accepted by many clinicians for early detection of metastasis; however, characterizing scintigraphic patterns of bone metastases in each type of cancer may still help physicians to improve their...
2) whole body bone scan 全身骨扫描 1. Objective To study the clinical value of serum tumor marker determination andwhole body bone scanfor diagnosis of bone metastases from breast cancer. 结论:CA15-3、CEA、TSGF具有诊断乳腺癌骨转移的临床价值,而联检肿瘤标志物结合全身骨扫描可以提高乳腺癌骨转移诊断...
Well differentiated thyroid cancer is a rare disease in the UK. It is the only cancer which, having metastasized, remains curable by radioisotope therapy with 131I. The main indication for administering repeat doses of 131I is the appearance of abnormal uptake in a whole body scan following di...
Whole-Body Imaging In addition to targeted organ-specific protocols, dedicated whole-body imaging is becoming an indispensable tool in evaluating cancer syndromes. Occasionally, whole-body imaging refers to a combination of different modalities including ultrasonography (US), computed tomography (CT), and...
Clinical whole-body skin examination reduces the incidence of thick melanomas Survival from melanoma is strongly related to tumour thickness, thus earlier diagnosis has the potential to reduce mortality from this disease. However, in... Joanne,F.,Aitken,... - 《International Journal of Cancer Jour...
This prospective study included 67 patients with solid tumours scheduled for PET/CT with [18 F]FDG who also underwent a whole-body PET/MRI scan. The datasets (PET/CT, PET/MRI) were rated by two readers regarding lesion conspicuity (four-point scale) and diagnostic confidence (five-point ...