The benefit of personalized hybrid SPECT/CT pulmonary imaging.

Hybrid pulmonary imaging in the present day has seen a fusion of various uses of CT scans, including angiography (CTAG), diagnostic CT, low dose CT (LDCT), and perfusion or ventilation scintigraphy in tomographic or planar imaging. Determining the most effective individualized test for the complete diagnostics of patients with pulmonary symptoms for various groups of patients is a major issue. The aim of the present study was to assess the effectiveness of the implementation of hybrid imaging in current methods of nuclear medicine in differential diagnostics of pulmonary embolism (PE).

SPECT/CT imaging in breast cancer - current status and challenges.

Background: The increasing incidence of breast cancer worldwide raises the importance of improving imaging techniques for disease stratification after early lesion detection. SPECT/CT imaging is now widely available but its diagnostic potential is not fully utilized for more specific purposes including breast cancer patient stratification.

Methods And Results: A Pubmed search for both original and review articles related to the value of SPECT/CT in breast cancer patients and comparison to other diagnostic methods.

Copper cation interactions with biologically essential types of ligands: a computational DFT study.

This work presents a systematic theoretical study on Cu(I) and Cu(II) cations in variable hydrogen sulfide-aqua-ammine ligand fields. These ligands model the biologically most common environment for Cu ions. Molecular structures of the complexes were optimized at the density functional theory (DFT) level.