By identifying the effect of any parameter such as distance, attenuation and scattering on the Line Spread Function (LSF), one can compensate the quantitative and qualitative destructive effect of such parameters by ...

Radionuclidic techniques may provide assessment of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) effective renal plasma flow (ERPF) or individual renal function. Several agents were available for determination of these parameters such ...

Skeletal metastasis is one of the most important disabling complications of the malignant diseases. As in general, the survival of patients with osteometastatic lesions is relatively long, an early diagnosis can lead to ...

A 14 years old boy who had a ventriculo-peritoneal shunt since the age of 5 months, was hospitalized due to headaches, nausea, vomiting and abdominal distension. In abdominal CT and sonographic evaluation, pancreatic ...

Using Gate's technique for GFR measurement with Gamma camera, the patient is received 5mCi of Tc-99m-DTPA. By this amount of radioactivity, good quality renal scan is not possible. This study tries to optimize Gate's ...

Discrepancy between pre & post treatment WBSs (Low dose & high dose, respectively) is reported. The aim of this study was determination the post-treatment WBS role in the diagnosis of lesions not identified by the pretreatment ...

Patients receiving diagnostic doses of radiopharmaceuticals become a source of contamination and exposure for those who come in contact with them, such as nuclear medicine technologists, relatives and nurses. Therefore, ...

The clinical management of pulmonary embolism and deep venous thrombosis of the legs are similar and requires prolonged anticoagulation therapy. The standard diagnostic approach in patients suspected of pulmonary embolism ...

It is suggested that sublingual nitroglycerine can improve the ability of T1-201 for detection of viable myocardium. Methods and Results: In a randomized, double blind study, 50 patients who had fixed defects on ...

Nuclear medicine methods have important role in the evaluation of transplanted kidney. In this study 58 99mTc-DTPA scans were performed in 38 patients. This method has 90% sensitivity and 96% specificity. In the cases of ...

This is a retrospective study on clinical course and treatment response of patients with thyroid hot nodule, referred to nuclear medicine department of Shariati Hospital from 1360 to 1377. From the total 58 patients with ...

Since 3D medical images such as SPECT and MRI are taken under different patients positioning and imaging parameters, interpretation of them, as reconstructed originally, does not provide an easy and accurate understanding ...

A known case of nephrotic syndrome aged 32 months was admitted to ICU because of loss of consciousness. In physical exam he had tachycardia, tachypnea and hypotension. Lab data showed metabolic alkalosis and hypoxia. In ...

Renal artery stenosis (RAS) is the most common cause of secondary hypertension. Preliminary data indicate that aspirin renography with hippurate may be more sensitive for detection RAS. In this study 20 patients with known ...

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