M Beth McCarville
M Beth McCarville
Because of the rarity of pediatric bone and soft tissue malignancies, it is difficult to validate the role of emerging imaging technologies in their management. The growing body of literature regarding the use of PET and PET/CT in children ...
Susan E Sharp,Michael J Gelfand,Barry L Shulkin
Susan E Sharp
I-123-metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) is the most commonly used functional imaging agent in patients with neuroblastoma, but use of [F-18]- FDG PET is increasing. MIBG is useful for defining the extent of disease at diagnosis, following resp...
The Use of PET in the Evaluation of Tumors in Children with Neurofibromatosis Type 1 [0.03%]
PET在1型神经纤维瘤病儿童肿瘤评估中的应用
Michael J Fisher
Michael J Fisher
Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is one of the most common tumor predisposition disorders. The role of PET for distinguishing tumor from non-malignant processes, detecting and grading tumors, evaluating tumor margins, predicting prognosis, di...
Wei Chen
Wei Chen
While rare in adults, central nervous system tumor is the most common solid tumor in childhood and is the leading cause of cancer death in children. Childhood brain tumors are different from those in adults in epidemiology, histologic featu...
PET in the Assessment of Pediatric Brain Development and Developmental Disorders [0.03%]
正电子发射断层扫描在儿科脑发育及发育性障碍评估中的应用
Ajay Kumar,Harry T Chugani
Ajay Kumar
This article discusses and reviews the role and contribution of PET in understanding the structural and functional changes that occur during brain development, and how these changes relate to behavioral and cognitive development in the infa...
Patient Preparation and Performance of PET/CT Scans in Pediatric Patients [0.03%]
儿科患者的PET/CT扫描的检查准备和实施措施
Michael J Gelfand,Susan E Sharp
Michael J Gelfand
Appropriate patient preparation is necessary for high-quality PET and PET/CT imaging in children and adolescents. Standard adult protocols and techniques will sometimes give suboptimal results, so attention to specific pediatric protocols i...
Drew A Torigian,Abass Alavi
Drew A Torigian
Maarten L Donswijk,Henny S Broekhuizen-de Gast,Drew A Torigian et al.
Maarten L Donswijk et al.
Brown fat is present and metabolically active in adults, and is involved in physiologic and pathologic processes. Brown fat activation can seriously interfere with correct [(18)F]fluorodeoxyglucose-PET image interpretation if not recognized...
Review of Physiologic and Pathophysiologic Sources of Fluorodeoxyglucose Uptake in the Chest Wall on PET [0.03%]
胸部PET显像中胸壁18氟脱氧葡萄糖摄取的生理和病理生理来源综述
Marc Hickeson,Gad Abikhzer
Marc Hickeson
The chest wall can be defined as the osseous and soft tissue structures that form the outer framework of the thorax and move during breathing. Topics discussed in this article include physiologic uptake of fluorodeoxyglucose, benign disease...
The Role of PET with [18-F] Fluorodeoxyglucose in the Diagnosis and Management of Thoracic Vascular Disease [0.03%]
正电子发射断层扫描技术在胸部血管病变诊断及治疗中作用的专家共识声明
YiDing Yu,Drew A Torigian,Nehal N Mehta
YiDing Yu
Investigating the functional activity of cellular inflammatory mediators is fundamental to understanding the pathophysiology and improving the treatment of numerous vascular conditions. PET with FDG allows noninvasive in vivo assessment of ...