Sestamibi technetium-99m brain single-photon emission computed tomography to identify recurrent glioma in adults: 201 studies.

Object: In the follow-up of treated gliomas, CT and MRI can often not differentiate radionecrosis from recurrent tumor. The aim of this study was to assess the interest of functional imaging with (99m)Tc-MIBI SPECT in a large series of 201 examinations.

Method: MIBI SPECT were performed in 81 patients treated for brain gliomas.

Evaluation of methods to detect interhemispheric asymmetry on cerebral perfusion SPECT: application to epilepsy.

Unlabelled: Detecting perfusion interhemispheric asymmetry in neurologic nuclear medicine imaging is an interesting approach to epilepsy.

Methods: This study compared 4 methods that detect interhemispheric asymmetries of brain perfusion in SPECT. The first (M1) was conventional side-by-side expert-based visual interpretation of SPECT.

Technetium-99m sestamibi brain SPECT in the follow-up of glioma for evaluation of response to chemotherapy: first results.

The initial treatment of high-grade glioma often consists of surgery and radiation therapy. Chemotherapy is used in cases of recurrence or after incomplete surgery. Because of the many potential serious side-effects of chemotherapy, early tumour response evaluation is necessary to enable clinicians to adapt the treatment.