[Method of penile scintigraphy].

A method of phalloscintigraphy, based on the gamma camera and computerized data processing, is offered. The results of examination of patients are described.

[Nuclear-medical equipment in the Research Institute for Medical Instrument-making].

The activity of the department for emission introscopy of the Research Institute for Medical Instrument-Making ("ZAO VNIIMP-VITA") is described in the article. A list of developed and commissioned devices and instruments for the field of nuclear medicine is presented. Methods of elaboration of some sophisticated instruments and units designed for radio-biochemical and radio-immunologic examinations as well as methods of elaboration of scintillation gamma cameras, tomograph GKS-301T, medical dosimeters and of other devices are also described.

[Methods and means for the noninvasive assessment of the cerebral circulation].

The main clinical and diagnostic tasks while studying cerebrovascular diseases have been defined and set on the basis of analysis of the biophysical and pathophysiological factors and parameters that characterize the cerebral circulation in health and disease. The currently available physioengineering methods and means for evaluating cebral hemodynamics. Proposals to design new equipment and to improve the existing one and recommendations how to use them while examining the cerebral circulation in various clinical situations are given.

[Conceptual and technological diagnostic problems in the prevention and rehabilitation of stroke].

The paper provides the optimum algorithms for diagnosing the severity of prestroke cerebral circulatory disorders and determining the poststroke brain lesion extent. It is suggested that various techniques, such as radionuclide diagnosis, Doppler ultrasonography, postural disorder correction should be employed.

[A trial of the clinical use of the Testascan computerized gamma tomograph in neurosurgical pathology].

The paper outlines the diagnostic potentialities of the first Russian multidetector Testascan gamma-tomograph. With this, three different radio pharmaceuticals (RP) were used; 99mTC-GM PAO for examining cerebral circulatory disorders, 99mTC pertechnetate for visualizing tumor foci, and 99mTC-DTPK for studying impaired cerebral liquor pathway. Regional cerebral blood supply was studied in 78 patients with arterial aneurysms and arteriovenous malformations, with stenoses and thromboses of the great arterial trunks, as well in patients with brain injury sequelae and hypophyseal, craniofascial, and cavernous sinus tumors, VIII-neurinomas, meningiomas of the pyramid of the temporal bone.