Multi-angle acquisition and 3D composite reconstruction for organ-targeted PET using planar detectors.

Background: This study investigates a multi-angle acquisition method aimed at improving image quality in organ-targeted PET detectors with planar detector heads. Organ-targeted PET technologies have emerged to address limitations of conventional whole-body PET/CT systems, such as restricted axial field-of-view (AFOV), limited spatial resolution, and high radiation exposure associated with PET procedures. The AFOV in organ-targeted PET can be adjusted to the organ of interest, minimizing unwanted signals from other parts of the body, thus improving signal collection efficiency and reducing the dose of administered radiotracer.

Image quality evaluation for a clinical organ-targeted PET camera.

Introduction: A newly developed clinical organ-targeted Positron Emission Tomography (PET) system (also known as Radialis PET) is tested with a set of standardized and custom tests previously used to evaluate the performance of Positron Emission Mammography (PEM) systems.

Methods: Imaging characteristics impacting standardized uptake value (SUV) and detectability of small lesions, namely spatial resolution, linearity, uniformity, and recovery coefficients, are evaluated.

Results: In-plane spatial resolution was measured as 2.

Breast Cancer Detection Using a Low-Dose Positron Emission Digital Mammography System.

Purpose To investigate the feasibility of low-dose positron emission mammography (PEM) concurrently to MRI to identify breast cancer and determine its local extent. Materials and Methods In this research ethics board-approved prospective study, participants newly diagnosed with breast cancer with concurrent breast MRI acquisitions were assigned independently of breast density, tumor size, and histopathologic cancer subtype to undergo low-dose PEM with up to 185 MBq of fluorine 18-labeled fluorodeoxyglucose (F-FDG). Two breast radiologists, unaware of the cancer location, reviewed PEM images taken 1 and 4 hours following F-FDG injection.

Long-Term Conductivity Stability of Electrolytic Membranes of Scandia Stabilized Zirconia Co-Doped with Ytterbia.

The effect of high-temperature aging for 4800 h at a temperature of 1123 K on the crystal structure and the conductivity of (ZrO)(ScO)(YbO) and (ZrO)(ScO)(YbO) single-crystal membranes were studied. Such membrane lifetime testing is critical to the operation of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). The crystals were obtained by the method of directional crystallization of the melt in a cold crucible.

Medicinal herbs and phytochitodeztherapy in oncology.

Application of clinical phytology in treatment of oncology diseases was limited by intensive development of chemical pharmaceuticals and surgery. The authors had set the task to develop the computer database for phytotherapy application. The database included full information on patient's clinical status (identified diseases, symptoms, syndromes) and applied phytotherapy treatment.

[Pathogenetic and surgical aspects of treating gastroesophageal reflux and hiatal hernia].

Gastroesophageal reflux is a diesease caused by a disorder of the esophagus motor function, weakening of the barrier lower esophageal sphincter function, slowing-down of gastric evacuation, and as result, prolonged contact of the gullett mucosa with the acidic gastric content.

[Complicated form of chronic stomach ulcer].

Stomach ulcer is one of the most important problems of gastroenterology. Complicated, often recurring, giant and refractory stomach ulcers are most complex in the pathogenetic and treatment regard. The chronic and often recurring course of the disease, high percent of complications including such severe ones as perforation and bleeding, malignization, penetration and stenosis quite often result in a partial or complete disability in patients.

[Frequency of relapse and gigantic stomach ulcers].

Frequently recurrent stomach ulcers are ulcers that exacerbate 2-3 times per year. Indolent ulcers are ulcers for which there is no healing during three months of continuous treatment.