A Dual-Modal Attention-Enhanced Deep Learning Network for Quantification of Parkinson's Disease Characteristics.

It is well known that most patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) have different degree of movement disorders, such as shuffling, festination and akinetic episodes, which could degenerate the life quality of PD patients. Therefore, it is very useful to develop a computerized tool to provide an objective evaluation of PD patients' gait. In this study, we implemented a novel gait evaluating approach to provide not only a binary classification of PD gaits and normal walking, but also a quantification of the PD gaits to relate them to the PD severity level.

F-FDGPET/CT in fever of unknown origin and inflammation of unknown origin: a Chinese multi-center study.

Purpose: To evaluate the clinical value of F-FDG-PET/CT for the diagnosis of fever of unknown origin (FUO) and inflammation of unknown origin (IUO) in Chinese population, as well as the characteristics of PET/CT in different category of etiological disease.

Methods: A total of 376 consecutive patients with FUO/IUO who underwent FDG-PET/CT at 12 hospitals were retrospectively studied. FDG uptake was quantitatively and visually evaluated, by using SUV and a 4-grade scale respectively.

[A comparison of ventilation/perfusion single photon emission CT and CT pulmonary angiography for diagnosis of pulmonary embolism].

Objective: To assess the diagnostic accuracy of ventilation/perfusion (V/Q) single photon emission CT (SPECT) as compared to computed tomographic pulmonary angiography (CTPA) for pulmonary embolism (PE).

Methods: In this prospective multicenter study, 111 patients in whom acute or sub-acute PE was clinically confirmed or suspected were enrolled. The patients underwent one-day method V/Q lung scan (including SPECT and planar imaging) within 3 days before and after completion of CTPA.

[Prognostic value of adenosine triphosphate myocardial perfusion tomography in octogenarians.].

Objective: To evaluate the prognostic value of (99m)Tc-MIBI myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography (MPS) with adenosine triphosphate in patients aged 80 years or older.

Methods: A total of 265 patients [mean age (84.2 +/- 3.

[Study of serum thyroid hormone levels changes in perioperation patients accepted coronary artery bypass grafts].

Objective: To clarify the change of serum thyroid hormone levels during perioperation period of coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG).

Methods: The levels of serum thyroid hormones (TT(3), TT(4), FT(3), FT(4), TSH, rT(3)) were measured by chemical-luminal and RIA in 62 patients at certain time in perioperation period, as well as 30 normal volunteers on a fasting basis. SPSS 10.

[Evaluation of cerebral hemodynamics in geriatric carotid stenosis pre- and post-carotid artery stenting].

Objectives: To explore influencing factors of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in geriatric carotid stenosis, and to analyze changes of rCBF and clinical symptoms after carotid stenting.

Methods: During August 2005 and April 2008, 68 geriatric patients of carotid stenosis having SPECT examination in our hospital were retrospectively studied, whose diagnosis was approved by angiography. Correlated rCBF was compared separately in different stenotic degrees of carotid stenosis, in unilateral or bilateral stenosis, accompanied with vertebrobasilar stenosis (VBS) or not, with collateral circulation or not, before and after carotid stenting.

Role of SPECT/CT in diagnosis of hepatic hemangiomas.

Aim: To investigate the role of SPECT/CT in the diagnosis of hepatic hemangiomas whose anatomical positions are not ideal, situated adjacent to the heart, the inferior cava, hepatic vessels or abdominal aorta, etc.

Methods: The hepatic perfusion, blood pool, and fusion imaging were carried out using SPECT/CT in 54 patients, who were suspected for hepatic hemangiomas. When the anatomical positions were not ideal, the diagnosis was difficult by SPECT only.

[Diagnostic value of adenosine (99m)Tc-MIBI myocardial perfusion imaging for detecting coronary artery disease].

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the accuracy of adenosine (99m)Tc-MIBI myocardial perfusion SPECT for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease.

Methods: A total of 89 patients [mean age (57 +/- 9) years,62 men, 27 women] were included in this study. Adenosine was infused intravenously at a rate of 140 microg.

Comparison of (99)mTc-methoxyisobutylisonitrile myocardial single-photon emission computed tomography and electron beam computed tomography for detecting coronary artery disease in patients with no myocardial infarction.

Background: Previous studies have compared single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and electron beam computed tomography (EBCT) in detection of coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients with myocardial infarction (MI). The purpose of this study was to compare SPECT with EBCT in detection of CAD in patients with no MI.

Methods: One hundred and forty-seven patients with suspected CAD underwent stress-rest (99)mTc-methoxyisobutylisonitrile ((99)mTc-MIBI) myocardial SPECT, cardiac EBCT and coronary angiography (CAG) within one month.