Radioactive Isotopes in Clinical Medicine and Research
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[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Helmar Bergmann, Helmut Sinzinger.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Basel
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Birkhäuser Basel
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1995
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SERIES
Series Title
Advances in pharmacological sciences.
CONTENTS NOTE
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The Badgastein Lecture.- Nuclear Medicine - Tool or Specialty?.- Lung: Therapy.- Ventilation scintigraphy of the tympanic cavity by 133Xenon.- Assessment of lung injury with 67Gallium in patients with pulmonary edema. A preliminary analysis.- A model for administered 81Krm activity and a method for measurement: Some recommendations for patient and staff dose reduction.- Dosimetry of intralesional 131I-monoclonal antibody (MAb) therapy in patients with recurrent high grade gliomas.- Improved control of malignant gliomas by means of intralesional radioimmunotherapy.- Oncology.- Thrombocytopenia in HIV, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), vasculitis and toxic bone marrow injury: An etiologic entity? Results of a comparative study.- 67Ga scintigraphy, MRI and CT in the follow-up of malignant lymphoma patients with residual mediastinal mass.- Tumor imaging using a 99mTc-labelled immunomodulator - results of clinical studies in various kinds of malignant tumors.- Investigation of breast cancer with 18fluordeoxyglucose (FDG) using conventional gamma camera system and SPECT-technique.- Comparison of 123I-?-methyltyrosine SPECT and 11C-L-methionine PET in patients with brain tumors.- Instrumentation; Image Processing.- PET image reconstruction for pharmacokinetic modeling of 5-[18F]fluorouracil in liver tumors.- Effects of distorted PET projection data on the reconstructed image using different reconstruction algorithms.- Noninvasive determination of the arterial input function: General description for an artery surrounded by homogeneous tissue.- Multimodal image registration for radioimmunotherapy. Surface landmark and frame based correlation in patients undergoing intralesional 131I-MAb therapy for recurrent high grade glioma.- Automatic scaling of static `analogue-equivalent' images obtained from digital gamma camera systems.- A method for determination of regional myocardial blood flow (RMBF) considering regional spillover.- Improvement of HMPAO brain SPECT evaluation using a Kalman filtering approach.- Bayesian identification of compartment structures in dynamic scintigraphic data.- Dosimetry in LDR- and HDR-brachytherapy by SPECT measurements of scattered compton photons.- Cardiology; Angiology.- Residual thallium activity in persistent defects after tracer reinjection at rest: A marker of myocardial viability.- Quantitative relation between resting 201thallium SPECT and 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose SPECT in normals.- Viability of the revascularized myocardium.- Positron-SPET imaging with 81rubidium for detection of coronary artery disease using a special design of a 511-keV collimator for the standard gamma camera.- Quantitative lymphoscintigraphy for the evaluation of lymphaticovenous anastomosis (LVA) in treatment of upper limb edema (ULE).- Immunoscintigraphy; Neurology.- Radioimmunoscintigraphy of ovarian tumours with 99mTc-labelled monoclonal antibody-170.- Immunoscintigraphy of colorectal cancer with 99mTc-labelled F(ab')2 fragments of the anti-CEA MoAb F023C5. First clinical results.- Radioimmunoscintigraphy of malignant melanoma with 99mTc-labelled monoclonal antibody BW 575.- Estimation of brain perfusion by evaluating the angiographic phase of 99mTc-HMPAO-studies.- Acetazolamide increases cardiac output.- HMPAO-SPECT and FDG-PET in Huntington's Disease: A methodological study comparing the performance of PET with that of a three headed SPECT camera.- Potential usefulness of stabilization methods for 99mTc-HMPAO in cerebral blood flow imaging.- Pharmacokinetics and biodistribution of [123I]?-CIT in humans.- Gastroenterology; Nephrology.- Scintigraphic determination of the functional abnormality in chronic idiopathic constipation.- Is kidney allograft perfusion determined essentially by donor characteristics? Results of a `twin study'.- TC/TL-3-D-subtraction-SPECT of parathyroid glands (PTG) in patients with chronic maintenance hemodialysis and secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT).- Scatter correction in renal clearance studies with radioiodine-hippuran.- State-of-the-Art Lecture.- The tissue characterisation of malignancy with radionuclide studies.- Radiopharmacology.- Optimized preparation of the dopaminergic receptor ligands 123I-epidepride and 123I-CIT.- 99Tc-labelling and biodistribution of designed molecules 287.- Different uptake of iodo-doxorubicin labelled with 123I in tumour cells of gastric carcinoma being sensitive and resistant to anthracyclines.- The reduction of the liver radioactivity after application of currently used tumour-affine radiopharmaceuticals.- Deoxyglucose uptake in oestrogen-ablated rat mammary tumours.- Interference of patient medication in the radiolabelling of blood cells: in-vitro and in-vivo effects.- Free Papers.- Volumetric analysis of antral motor activity.- 111lndium polyclonal human immunoglobulin G in human and experimental atherosclerosis.- SPECT-quality-control: Evaluating center-of-rotation offset, Y-shift and detector tilt by means of a single, comprehensive test.- Poster Session I: New Techniques.- Acute ethanol-induced changes in cerebral blood flow.- Experimental studies of 123I-labelled iodo-doxorubicin.- Preparation and quality control of 153Samarium-EDTMP for radio-therapy of metastatic bone pain.- Universally valid algorithms for GFR determination requiring a single plasma sample.- Scintigraphic defaecography: Experience with 145 patients.- A PC LAN as a flexible and non-expensive implementation of a PACS.- Scintigraphic prediction of residual lung function following lobectomy: The use of posterior oblique views.- Poster Session II: Oncology.- 99Tcm (V) DMSA and 111In pentetreotide in the detection of malignancies.- Reliable diagnosis of pancreatic adenocarcinoma with 18F-2-FDG-positron-emissiontomography (PET).- Recognition of rhabdo- and leiomyosarcomas by means of 111In-labeled antimyosinantibody fragments - an improvement for the oncologic diagnostic.- Uptake of 4-iodo-doxorubicin labelled with 123I and 99mTc in tumour cells of gastric carcinoma and suprarenal gland carcinoma.- Platelet uptake of 131I-metaiodobenzylguanidine-mechanism, extent and clinical relevance.- Poster Session III: Varia.- Carotid scintigraphy in hypertensive patients with ultrasound images of intimal thickening.- Mean transit time of 111In-DTPA through the CSF-space for the detection of normal pressure hydrocephalus.- Striatal glucose consumption in various choreatic disorders.- The influence of Verapamil on cardiac uptake of 123I-labelled anthracyclines in rabbits.- Thyroglobulin and its meaning for forensic medicine - experiences in studies using an IRMA test.- Imaging of parathyroid adenomas using 99mTechnetium-Sestamibi in an endemic Goiter area.- Author Index.- Keyword Index.