Pulmonary Sequestration with Renal Aplasia and Elevated SUV Level in PET/CT by Serdar Şen, Nilgün Kanlıoğlu Kuman, Ekrem Şentürk, Engin Pabuşcu, Ertan Yaman

“…The lesion has focally increased glycolytic activity (SUVmax: 3.2) at the left upper pole on positron emission tomography scan (PET/CT). Sequestrectomy was performed after the confirmation by frozen section that the lesion was benign and of extrapulmonary sequestration. …”
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Primary neurolymphomatosis presenting as foot drop: A rare case report by Neha Bakshi, Vineeta Chand, Rajiv Anand, Rajan Duggal

“…Nerve biopsy remains the diagnostic gold standard, use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and fluorodeoxyglucose–positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) may help in diagnosis and selecting targets for biopsy. …”
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Cinematic rendering of pleural solitary fibrous tumor by Taha M Ahmed, MD, Elliot K. Fishman, MD

“…We highlight the appearance of solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura on computed tomography and positron emission tomography imaging, as well as providing detailed cinematic rendering images of these rare neoplasms.…”
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Can We Observe the Gravitational Quantum States of Positronium? by P. Crivelli, V. V. Nesvizhevsky, A. Yu. Voronin

“…Those are the efficient focusing of a bunched positron beam, Stark deceleration of Rydberg positronium, and its subsequent excitation into states with large angular momentum. …”
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Z′ Resonance and Associated Zh Production at Future Higgs Boson Factory: ILC and CLIC by A. Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, M. A. Hernández-Ruíz

“…We study the prospects of the B-L model with an additional Z′ boson to be a Higgs boson factory at high-energy and high-luminosity linear electron positron colliders, such as the ILC and CLIC, through the Higgs-strahlung process e+e-→(Z,Z′)→Zh, including both the resonant and the nonresonant effects. …”
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Hyalinizing Clear Cell Carcinoma of the Mandible – A Rare Case Report by Mohsina Hussain, Arif Shaikh, Rajendra Dhongde, Sucheta Gandhe, Yogesh Pawar, Sirshendu Roy, Raj Nagarkar

“…Due to delay in presenting, a whole-body positron emission tomography scan was performed and reports have shown no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body. …”
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Cancer of the Pancreas: The Best Image for Early Detection – CT, MRI, PET or US? by Anthony E Hanbidge

“…Functional imaging (using positron emission tomography with fluorodeoxyglucose) may be helpful, especially if the images are fused with those of computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging. …”
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Recurrent Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma with the Initial Manifestation of Retinal Involvement by Wan-Ting Yeh, Jen-Tsun Lin*

“…Thus, the intravascular lymphoma was impressed. The whole-body positron emission tomography/computed tomography revealed no hypermetabolic extracranial malignancy. …”
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Incidental Discovery of Hepatocellular Carcinoma on 18F-PSMA PET CT Performed for Prostate Cancer Reassessment by Lauren Hekman, Eva Napierkowski, Natalie C. Hartman, Jeffrey L. Ellis, Robert H. Wagner, Davide Bova, Maria M. Picken, Robert C. Flanigan

“…Prostate-specific membrane antigen positron emission tomography (PSMA PET) has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to identify prostate cancer in the setting of biochemical recurrence but can also identify other malignancies. 18F-PSMA PET has not been studied as a potential tool for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). …”
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Imaging Multidrug Resistance P-glycoprotein Transport Function Using MicroPET with Technetium-94m-Sestamibi by Heather M. Bigott, Julie L. Prior, David R. Piwnica-Worms, Michael J. Welch

“…The best characterized mechanism of multidrug resistance (MDR) in cancer involves the MDR1 efflux transporter P-glycoprotein (Pgp). The positron-emitting radiotracer hexakis (2-methoxyisobutylisonitrile)- 94m Tc ( 94m Tc-MIBI) was synthesized and validated in cell transport studies as a substrate for MDR1 Pgp. …”
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Serotonergic Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease and Its Relevance to Disability by Marios Politis, Clare Loane

“…With the use of in vivo positron emission tomography functional imaging, it has been shown that serotonergic terminals are affected at a varying, nonlinear degree starting early in the clinical course of Parkinson's disease. …”
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Unconventional Nuclides for Radiopharmaceuticals by Jason P. Holland, Matthew J. Williamson, Jason S. Lewis

“…Until recently, the majority of clinical and basic science research has focused on the development of 11 C-, 13 N-, 15 O-, and 18 F-radiopharmaceuticals for use with positron emission tomography (PET) and 99m Tc-labeled agents for use with single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). …”
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Apoptotic PET Imaging of Rat Pulmonary Fibrosis With [F]ML-8 by Ying Xiong MM, Dahong Nie BM, Shaoyu Liu PhD, Hui Ma BM, Shu Su BM, Aixia Sun PhD, Jing Zhao MD, PhD, Zhanwen Zhang PhD, Xianhong Xiang MD, PhD, Ganghua Tang MD, PhD

“…Objective: To investigate the value of 2-(3-[ 18 F]fluoropropyl)-2-methyl-malonic acid ([ 18 F]ML-8) positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of rat pulmonary fibrosis. …”
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Pre-CCRT 18-fluorodeoxyglucose PET-CT improves survival in patients with advanced stages p16-negative oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma via accurate radiation treatment plannin... by Tsung-Ming Chen, Wan-Ming Chen, Mingchih Chen, Ben-Chang Shia, Szu-Yuan Wu

“…Abstract Purpose No large-scale prospective randomized study with a long-term follow-up period has evaluated the survival outcomes of preconcurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) 18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography–computed tomography (18FDG PET–CT) in patients with non–human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC). …”
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Patient-Tailored, Imaging-Guided, Long-Term Temozolomide Chemotherapy in Patients with Glioblastoma by Norbert Galldiks, Lutz W. Kracht, Lothar Burghaus, Roland T. Ullrich, Heiko Backes, Anna Brunn, Wolf-Dieter Heiss, Andreas H. Jacobs

“…In addition to clinical status and magnetic resonance imaging, the biologic activity of the tumors was monitored by repeated methyl- 11 C-l-methionine (MET) and 3′-deoxy-3′- 18 F-fluorothymidine (FLT) positron emission tomography (PET) studies in these patients. …”
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PET/SPECT Molecular Probes for the Diagnosis and Staging of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease by Tuo Shao PhD, Lee Josephson PhD, Steven H. Liang PhD

“…While liver biopsy is considered as gold standard in the diagnosis and staging of liver fibrosis, noninvasive imaging technologies, including ultrasonography, computed tomography, single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), magnetic resonance imaging, and positron emission tomography (PET) could offer more sensitive, comprehensive, and quantitative measurement for NAFLD. …”
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Hodgkin Lymphoma and Castleman Disease: When One Blood Disease Can Hide Another by L. Filliatre-Clement, H. Busby-Venner, C. Moulin, G. Roth-Guepin, A. Perrot

“…The patient described here complained of unique evolutionary axillary adenopathy. A positron-emission tomography/computed tomography scan revealed hypermetabolic activity in this area. …”
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Occipital Hypometabolism on FDG PET/CT Scan in a Child with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma by Inci Uslu Biner, Ebru Tatci, Ozlem Ozmen, Atila Gokcek, Haci Ahmet Demir, Nadide Basak Gulleroglu

“…It is known that Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) Positron Emission/Computed Tomography (PET/CT) images may be helpful for evaluation of brain function in newborns. …”
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Generalised antenna functions for higher-order calculations by Elliot Fox, Nigel Glover, Matteo Marcoli

“…We discuss in detail the improvements on the formal and practical side for the computation of the NNLO correction to three-jet production at electron-positron colliders, providing a thorough numerical validation of the newly proposed scheme. …”
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Towards the understanding of heavy quarks hadronization: from leptonic to heavy-ion collisions by J. Altmann, A. Dubla, V. Greco, A. Rossi, P. Skands

“…The comparison with model predictions and connections among the results in electron–positron, proton–proton, proton–nucleus, nucleus–nucleus collisions are discussed. …”
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