Radioactive Isotopes in Clinical Medicine and Research

Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Nuclear Medicine — Tool or Specialty?....Pages 3-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Ventilation Scintigraphy of the Tympanic Cavity by Xenon-133....Pages 11-16
Assessment of Lung Injury with 67 Gallium in Patients with Pulmonary Edema. A Preliminary Analysis....Pages 17-22
A Model for Administered 81 Kr m Activity and a Method for Measurement: Some Recommendations for Patient and Staff Dose Reduction....Pages 23-28
Dosimetry of Intralesional 131 I-Monoclonal Antibody (MAb) Therapy in Patients with Recurrent High Grade Gliomas....Pages 29-34
Improved Control of Malignant Gliomas by Means of Intralesional Radioimmunotherapy....Pages 35-41
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
Thrombocytopenia in HIV, Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP), Vasculitis and Toxic Bone Marrow Injury: An Etiologic Entity ? Results of a Comparative Study....Pages 45-50
 67 Ga Scintigraphy, MRI and CT in the Follow-Up of Malignant Lymphoma Patients with Residual Mediastinal Mass....Pages 51-56
Tumor Imaging Using a Tc-99m Labelled Immunomodulatorresults of Clinical Studies in Various Kinds of Malignant Tumors....Pages 57-63
Investigation of Breast Cancer with 18 Fluordeoxyglucose Using Conventional Gamma Camera System and Spect-Technique....Pages 65-70
Comparison of 123 I-α-Methyltyrosine SPECT and 11 C-L-Methionine PET in Patients with Brain Tumors....Pages 71-75
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
PET Image Reconstruction for Pharmacokinetic Modeling of 5-[ 18 F]Fluorouracil in Liver Tumors....Pages 79-84
Effects of Distorted PET Projection Data on the Reconstructed Image Using Different Reconstruction Algorithms....Pages 85-90
Noninvasive Determination of the Arterial Input Function: General Description for an Artery Surrounded by Homogeneous Tissue....Pages 91-96
Multimodal Image Registration for Radioimmunotherapy. Surface Landmark and Frame Based Correlation in Patients Undergoing Intralesional 131 I-MAb Therapy for Recurrent High Grade Glioma....Pages 97-104
Automatic Scaling of Static ‘Analogue-Equivalent’ Images Obtained from Digital Gamma Camera Systems....Pages 105-108
A Method for Determination of Regional Myocardial Blood Flow (RMBF) Considering Regional Spillover....Pages 109-115
Improvement of HMPAO Brain SPECT Evaluation Using a Kalman Filtering Approach....Pages 117-121
Bayesian Identification of Compartment Structures in Dynamic Scintigraphic Data....Pages 123-128
Dosimetry in LDR- and HDR-Brachytherapy by SPECT Measurements of Scattered Compton Photons....Pages 129-134
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Residual Thallium Activity in Persistent Defects after Tracer Reinjection at Rest: A Marker of Myocardial Viability....Pages 137-142
Quantitative Relation between Resting Thallium-201 SPECT and 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose SPECT in Normals....Pages 143-148
Viability of the Revascularized Myocardium....Pages 149-154
Positron-Spet Imaging with Rubidium-81 for Detection of Coronary Artery Disease Using a Special Design of a 511-keV Collimator for the Standard Gamma Camera....Pages 155-160
Quantitative Lymphoscintigraphy for the Evaluation of Lymphaticovenous Anastomosis (LVA) in Treatment of Upper Limb Edema (ULE)....Pages 161-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Radioimmunoscintigraphy of Ovarian Tumours with Tc-99m Labelled Monoclonal Antibody-170....Pages 169-177
Immunoscintigraphy of Colorectal Cancer with Tc-99m-Labeled F(ab′)2 Fragments of the Anti-CEA MoAb F023C5 First Clinical Results....Pages 179-185
Radioimmunoscintigraphy of Malignant Melanoma with 99m Tc-Labelled Monoclonal Antibody BW 575....Pages 187-193
Estimation of Brain Perfusion by Evaluating the Angiographic Phase of Tc-99m-Hmpao-Studies....Pages 195-200
Acetazolamide Increases Cardiac Output....Pages 201-205
HMPAO-SPECT and FDG-PET in Huntington’s Disease: A Methodological Study Comparing the Performance of PET with That of a Three Headed SPECT Camera....Pages 207-210
Potential Usefulness of Stabilization Methods for 99m Tc-HMPAO in Cerebral Blood Flow Imaging....Pages 211-216
Pharmacokinetics and Biodistribution of [ 123 I]β-CIT in Humans....Pages 217-222
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Scintigraphic Determination of the Functional Abnormality in Chronic Idiopathic Constipation....Pages 225-230
Is Kidney Allograft Perfusion Determined Essentially by Donor Characteristics? Results of a ‘Twin Study’.....Pages 231-236
TC/TL-3-D-Subtraction-SPECT of Parathyroid Glands (PTG) in Patients with Chronic Maintenance Hemodialysis and Secondary Hyperparathyroidism (SHPT)....Pages 237-240
Scatter Correction in Renal Clearance Studies with Radioiodine-Hippuran....Pages 241-245
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
The Tissue Characterisation of Malignancy with Radionuclide Studies....Pages 249-277
Front Matter....Pages 279-279
Optimized Preparation of the Dopaminergic Receptor Ligands 123 I-Epidepride and 123 I-CIT....Pages 281-286
Tc-99m Labelling and Biodistribution of Designed Molecules....Pages 287-292
Front Matter....Pages 279-279
Different Uptake of Iodo-Doxorubicin Labelled with I-123 in Tumour Cells of Gastric Carcinoma Being Sensitive and Resistant to Anthracyclines....Pages 293-296
The Reduction of the Liver Radioactivity after Application of Currently Used Tumour-Affine Radiopharmaceuticals....Pages 297-307
Deoxyglucose Uptake in Oestrogen-Ablated Rat Mammary Tumours....Pages 309-313
Interference of Patient Medication in the Radiolabelling of Blood Cells: In-Vitro and In-Vivo Effects....Pages 315-322
Front Matter....Pages 323-323
Volumetric Analysis of Antral Motor Activity....Pages 325-328
 111 Indium Polyclonal Human Immunoglobulin G in Human and Experimental Atherosclerosis....Pages 329-334
SPECT-Quality-Control: Evaluating Center-of-Rotation Offset, Y-Shift and Detector Tilt by Means of a Single, Comprehensive Test....Pages 335-341
Front Matter....Pages 343-343
Acute Ethanol-Induced Changes in Cerebral Blood Flow....Pages 345-350
Experimental Studies of I-123-Labelled Iodo-Doxorubicin....Pages 351-355
Preparation and Quality Control of 153 Samarium-EDTMP for Radio-Therapy of Metastatic Bone Pain....Pages 357-360
Universally Valid Algorithms for GFR Determination Requiring a Single Plasma Sample....Pages 361-368
Scintigraphic Defaecography: Experience with 145 Patients....Pages 369-374
A PC LAN as a Flexible and Non-Expensive Implementation of a PACS....Pages 375-378
Scintigraphic Prediction of Residual Lung Function Following Lobectomy: The Use of Posterior Oblique Views....Pages 379-384
Front Matter....Pages 385-385
 99 Tc m (V) DMSA and 111 In Pentetreotide in the Detection of Malignancies....Pages 387-391
Reliable Diagnosis of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma with 18-F-2-FDG-Positron-Emission-Tomography (PET)....Pages 393-397
Recognition of Rhabdo- and Leiomyosarcomas by Means of in-111 Labeled Antimyosin-Antibody Fragments — An Improvement for the Oncologic Diagnostic....Pages 399-404
Uptake of 4-Iodo-Doxorubicin Labelled with I-123 and Tc-99m in Tumour Cells of Gastric Carcinoma and Suprarenal Gland Carcinoma....Pages 405-408
Platelet Uptake of 131 I — Metaiodobenzylguanidine — Mechanism, Extent and Clinical Relevance....Pages 409-413
Front Matter....Pages 415-415
Carotid Scintigraphy in Hypertensive Patients with Ultrasound Images of Intimal Thickening....Pages 417-422
Front Matter....Pages 415-415
Mean Transit Time of in-111-DTPA Through the CSF-Space for the Detection of Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus....Pages 423-428
Striatal Glucose Consumption in Various Choreatic Disorders....Pages 429-432
The Influence of Verapamil on Cardiac Uptake of I-123 Labelled Anthracyclines in Rabbits....Pages 433-438
Thyroglobulin and Its Meaning for the Forensic Medicine-Experiences in Studies Using an IRMA Test....Pages 439-444
Imaging of Parathyroid Adenomas Using Technetium-99m-Sestamibi in an Endemic Goiter Area....Pages 445-450
Back Matter....Pages 451-454