Combining Nuclear Medicine With Other Modalities: Future Prospect for Multimodality Imaging by Stephen J. Archibald PhD, Jason P. Holland PhD, Aruna Korde PhD, Andre F. Martins PhD, Adam J. Shuhendler PhD, Peter J. H. Scott PhD

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PET Imaging of Steroid Hormone Receptor Expression by Louis Allott, Graham Smith, Eric O. Aboagye, Laurence Carroll

“…The development of positron emission tomography (PET) radioligands to image receptor expression may overcome the difficulties associated with tumor heterogeneity and facilitate the assessment of metastatic disease.…”
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A Middle-Aged Woman with Logopenic Progressive Aphasia as a Precursor of Alzheimer's Disease: Case Report and Review of the Literature by Stephanie M. Awad, Amer M. Awad

“…The patient's neurological evaluation including positron emission tomography is consistent with a logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia.…”
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Neuroimaging and electrophysiology evidence unveiling the mystery of disorders of consciousness by BAI Yang

“…Among them, neuroimaging techniques, including positron emission tomography (PET), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), as well as electrophysiological techniques, including spontaneous electroencephalograms (EEG), event-related potentials (ERPs), and transcranial magnetic stimulation-induced electroencephalograms (TMS-EEG), have provided different dimensional features related to consciousness. …”
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Complete Resection of a Torcular Herophili Hemangiopericytoma without Sinus Reconstruction: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Salah-Edine Safi, Julie Godfrain, Herbert Rooijakkers, Frederic Collignon

“…Total body positron emission tomography [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose found no secondary location. …”
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Cherenkov radiation energy transfer from [18F]-fluorodeoxyglucose to subphthalocyanine fluorophores by Lioret, Vivian, Decréau, Richard A.

“…Cherenkov radiation (CR) is an optical light that is emitted during the decay of beta-particle-emitting radionuclides, such as 18F, which is present in [18F]-fluorodeoxyglucose, a well-known tracer used in positron emission tomography. The CR emission occurs from relaxation of molecules of the dielectric medium surrounding the emitted beta-particle. …”
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Positron Emission Tomographic Imaging of the Cannabinoid Type 1 Receptor System with [C]OMAR ([C]JHU75528): Improvements in Image Quantification Using Wild-Type and Knockout Mice by Raúl Herance, Santiago Rojas, Sergio Abad, Xavier Jiménez, Juan Domingo Gispert, Olga Millán, Elena Martín-García, Aurelijus Burokas, Miquel Àngel Serra, Rafael Maldonado, Deborah Pareto

“…In this study, we assessed the feasibility of using positron emission tomography (PET) and the tracer [ 11 C]OMAR ([ 11 C]JHU75528), an analogue of rimonabant, to study the brain cannabinoid type 1 (CB1) receptor system. …”
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Prosthetic Valve Candida Endocarditis: A Case Report with 18F-FDG-PET/CT as Part of the Diagnostic Workup by Soile Pauliina Salomäki, Antti Saraste, Päivi Jalava-Karvinen, Laura Pirilä, Ulla Hohenthal

“…We describe two patients with Candida spp. prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) and 18fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-FDG-PET/CT) as a part of diagnostic workup. …”
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Single Photon Emission Tomography Imaging in Parkinsonian Disorders: A Review by Paul D. Acton, P. David Mozley

“…Pathological evidence has shown clearly that these disorders are associated with a loss of neurons, particularly in the nigrostriatal dopaminergic pathway. Positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission tomography (SPECT) now are able to visualise and quantify changes in cerebral blood flow, glucose metabolism, and dopaminergic function produced by parkinsonian disorders. …”
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Psychiatric Symptoms in Patients with Focal cortical Degeneration by R. M. Lawrence, M. A. Ronca, P. Tyrrell, M. N. Rossor

“…Localized or asymmetric atrophy was present on neuroimaging (CT or MRI) and positron emission tomography demonstrated focal hypometabolism or in those assessed later in the disease an area of maximal hypometabolism which correlated with the neuropsychological deficit. …”
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Purinergic Receptors of the Central Nervous System: Biology, PET Ligands, and Their Applications by Hamideh Zarrinmayeh PhD, Paul R. Territo PhD

“…Imaging of the purinergic receptors with selective Positron Emission Tomography (PET) radioligands has advanced our understanding of the functional roles of some of these receptors in healthy and diseased brains. …”
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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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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*

“…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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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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