Objectives. To determine the value of 18-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission
tomography (PET) studies in the evaluation of patients with organ-confined prostate cancer. …

The annual incidence of primary intracranial tumors is 7 to 19 cases per 100,000 people.
The general approach to the treatment of brain neoplasms is surgical resection of solitary …

This study examined the comparative potency of several psychological stressors and exercise
in eliciting myocardial ischemia as measured by left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (EF) …

0.001). Prone imaging resulted in a significantly higher specificity for RCA disease compared
to supine imaging (90% vs. 66%, p< 0.05) with an improvement in accuracy from 71% to 82…

Background Whole-body positron emission tomography (PET) provides diagnostic information
not currently available with traditional imaging and may improve the accuracy of staging …

Objective: Numerous authors have reported the potential usefulness of positron emission
tomography (PET). These studies have had conflicting results, at least partly owing to limited …

Nuclear medicine in the United States has grown because of advances in technology, including
hybrid imaging, the introduction of new radiopharmaceuticals for diagnosis and therapy, …

Fluorodeoxyglucose in Humans Page 1 ith the increasing use of â€8F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)
in clinical nuclear medicine, it is important to delineate its normal distribution in humans…

Introduction: This study was designed to determine the value of fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)
positron emission tomography (PET) in the evaluation of metastatic transitional cell carcinoma …

Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is an accurate method for assessing myocardial
perfusion and metabolism in the evaluation of coronary heart disease. PET allows more …