Treatment Resulting Changes in Volumes of High-F-FDG-Uptake Adipose Tissues over Orbit and Epicardium Correlate with Treatment Response for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma.

Background: A regimen of rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone (R-CHOP) is the standard treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Brown adipose tissue possesses anti-cancer potential. This study aimed to explore practical biomarkers for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma by analyzing the metabolic activity of adipose tissue.

Dual-tracer positron emission tomography/computed tomography as an imaging probe of lipogenesis in preclinical models of hepatocellular carcinoma.

Background: lipogenesis is upregulated in many cancers, and targeting it represents a metabolic approach to cancer treatment. However, the treatment response is unpredictable because lipogenic activity varies greatly among individual tumors, thereby necessitating the assessment of lipogenic activity before treatment. Here, we proposed an imaging probe, positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) with dual tracers combining C-acetate and F-fluorodeoxyglucose (F-FDG), to assess the lipogenic activity of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and predict the response to lipogenesis-targeted therapy.

Three-dimensional semiquantitative analysis of gastric emptying SPECT.

Objective: We used dynamic single-photon emission computed tomography (D-SPECT) to overcome the interference of the planar dynamic imaging due to the overlap of internal organs, thus more accurate physiological function can be obtained.

Methods: 3D printed gastric phantom was used to simulate gastric emptying (GE). First, the planar dynamic liquid GE procedure was used and served as the reference value; second, D-SPECT followed by repeated liquid GE procedures with three gamma cameras were used.

2021 Advocacy Statements for the Role of Tc-Pyrophosphate Scintigraphy in the Diagnosis of Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis: A Report of the Taiwan Society of Cardiology and the Society of Nuclear Medicine of the Republic of China.

Transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis (ATTR-CM) is an increasingly recognized cause of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. Favorable prognosis depends on early diagnosis and correct treatment strategy. Among patients for whom there is a high clinical suspicion of cardiac amyloidosis, Tc-labeled bone avid scintigraphy including Tc-pyrophosphate (PYP) scintigraphy may be of diagnostic and prognostic importance.

Micro-PET imaging of [18F]fluoroacetate combined with [18F]FDG to differentiate chronic Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection from an acute bacterial infection in a mouse model: a preliminary study.

Background: Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) infection is one of the deadliest infectious diseases worldwide and is responsible for 1.7 million deaths per year. The increase in multidrug-resistant TB poses formidable challenges to the global control of tuberculosis.

Reappraisal of the effectiveness of ⁹⁹mTc-dimercaptosuccinic acid scans for selective voiding cystourethrography in children with a first febrile urinary tract infection.

Recent studies have yielded conflicting results regarding the ability of technetium-99m dimercaptosuccinic acid ((99m)Tc-DMSA) renal scans for identifying high-grade vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) in children with a first febrile urinary tract infection (UTI). This study aimed to reevaluate the effectiveness of (99m)Tc-DMSA renal scans for selective voiding cystourethrography (VCUG) in children with a first febrile UTI. The medical records of children aged ≤ 5 years who were admitted with a first febrile UTI were retrospectively reviewed.