Andrew B Newberg,Abass Alavi
Andrew B Newberg
Andrew B Newberg,Abass Alavi
Andrew B Newberg
PET imaging is used to assess a variety of psychiatric disorders. Most of these imaging results still lie in the realm of research, helping to understand the pathophysiology of different disorders, explore diagnostic criteria, and evaluate ...
Abass Alavi,Andrew B Newberg
Abass Alavi
Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging has been widely used in the evaluation and management of patients with seizure disorders. The ability of PET to measure cerebral function makes it ideal for studying the neurophysiologic correlates...
Jacob G Dubroff,Andrew B Newberg
Jacob G Dubroff
Traumatic brain injury represents a substantial public health problem for which clinicians have limited treatment avenues. Traditional FDG-positron emission tomography (PET) brain imaging has provided unique insights into this disease inclu...
PET in Brain Tumors [0.03%]
正电子发射断层扫描在脑肿瘤中的应用
Roland Hustinx,Pacôme Fosse
Roland Hustinx
Evaluating gliomas, either at diagnosis or at recurrence, is among the historical indications of FDG positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. There is a clear relationship between the tumor grade, patient prognosis, and intensity of upta...
Evolving Role of Modern Structural and Functional MR Imaging Techniques for Assessing Neuropsychiatric Disorders [0.03%]
现代结构和功能磁共振成像技术在神经精神疾病评估中的作用及其发展
Paolo Nucifora
Paolo Nucifora
Structural and functional MR imaging techniques play an important role in the modern assessment of neuropsychiatric disorders. Applications of MR imaging are reviewed for several types of mental illness. Morphometric MR imaging, functional ...
Habib Zaidi,Marie-Louise Montandon,Frédéric Assal
Habib Zaidi
Many neurodegenerative dementias produce significant alterations in the brain that are often not detectable by neurologic tests or with structural imaging. PET is ideally suited for monitoring cell/molecular events early in the course of a ...
Challenges for Developing PET Tracers: Isotopes, Chemistry, and Regulatory Aspects [0.03%]
PET示踪剂开发的挑战：同位素、化学和监管方面的问题
Robert H Mach,Sally W Schwarz
Robert H Mach
The primary limitation on the development of new radiotracers for use with positron emission tomography (PET) is the time constraints created by working with radionuclides with the short half-lives inherent to carbon 11 and fluorine 18, the...
Min Yao,Peter F Faulhaber
Min Yao
PET Scan in Thyroid Cancer [0.03%]
甲状腺癌的正电子扫描
Muammer Urhan,Sandip Basu,Abass Alavi
Muammer Urhan
Patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma usually have a good prognosis; however, up to 40% of them may develop local recurrence. PET scanning has added new information on disease evaluation. The most appropriate indication to fluorode...