Highlighting Shooting Opportunities in Football.

The purpose of the present study was to create a two-dimensional model which illustrates a landscape of shooting opportunities at goal during a competitive football match. For that purpose, we analysed exemplar attacking subphases of each team when the ball was in the last 30 m of the field. The player's positional data (x and y coordinates) and the ball were captured at 25 fps and processed to create heatmaps that illustrated the shooting opportunities that were available in the first and second half in different field areas.

Differential regional lung uptake analysis of the lung scan as an adjunct to interpretation of pulmonary embolism.

Objective: Differential regional lung uptake (DRLU) analysis of a lung perfusion scan is used to provide information on diversion of the radiotracer from areas supplied by obstructed pulmonary artery branches to areas with patent vessels, which could assist in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism (PE), especially the intermediate-probability studies.

Methods: Lung perfusion scans performed over 3 years (n=121) were analyzed using a computer overlay of six regions of interest per lung on the posterior view. DRLU was defined for neighboring region pairs as the ratio of the difference in the average count rate to the sum of the count rate in the region pair for a total of 18 region pairs per study.

Improved delineation of parathyroid lesions in patients with chronic renal failure using magnified pinhole imaging.

Unlabelled: (99m)Tc-sestamibi dual-phase scintigraphy is currently established for parathyroid localization. However, the imaging technique is not standardized, and the role of the pinhole collimator, especially, is not fully recognized in the imaging protocol. The aim of this study was to check whether the use of a pinhole collimator in parathyroid scintigraphy would enhance lesion detectability and delineation more than does a parallel-hole collimator or SPECT in patients with secondary hyperparathyroidism due to chronic renal failure with a mixed pattern of abnormalities.

(99m)Tc sulfur colloid and (99m)Tc mebrofenin hepatobiliary functional liver imaging in normal and diabetic rats.

Objectives: To use (99m)Tc sulfur colloid ((99m)Tc-SC) and (99m)Tc mebrofenin ((99m)Tc-BrIDA) to study liver function in normal and diabetic rats.

Materials And Methods: Radionuclide imaging was performed on 2 groups of rats, using (99m)Tc-SC for one group and (99m)Tc-BrIDA for the other (20 rats per group) before and after induction of diabetes mellitus (DM) using streptozotocin administration (55 mg/kg i.p.