Publications by authors named "Annah Skillen"
F-florbetapir is a promising tracer in amyloidosis. This study evaluates its use in patients with systemic AL amyloidosis (AL) before and after treatment as well as its serial utility in monitoring. Fifteen AL patients with cardiac involvement underwent F-florbetapir PET imaging and three patients underwent repeat imaging after chemotherapy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The purpose of this study is to identify a method for optimising the administered activity and acquisition time for F-FDG PET imaging, yielding images of consistent quality for patients with varying body sizes and compositions, while limiting radiation doses to patients and staff. Patients referred for FDG scans had bioimpedance measurements. They were injected with 3 MBq/kg of F up to 370 MBq and scanned on a Siemens Biograph mCT at 3 or 4 min per bed position.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVarious (99m)Tc DTPA scintigraphic quantitative parameters for renal graft function assessment have been recommended, but none is universally accepted. In this study, 439 dynamic renal transplant scintigraphies (DRTS) were retrospectively analysed. In the first set of studies, four observers analysed the 47 random DRTS and interobserver agreement of eleven derived parameters was assessed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: The visualization of hypermetabolic brown adipose tissue (BAT) on (18)F FDG PET lowers the efficacy of PET and has been linked with the environmental temperature of the patient before presentation. The objective of this paper is to investigate the effectiveness of thermal control on BAT and (18)F-FDG PET.
Methods: Three hundred patients undergoing (18)F-FDG PET were defined by 1 of 2 groups.