Despite recent therapeutic breakthroughs, cancer patients continue to face high recurrence and mortality rates due to treatment resistance. Cancer stem cells (CSCs), a subpopulation with self-renewal ...
Objectives Tc-99m DMSA renal scan (DMSA) is frequently used in evaluating patients with urinary tract infection. However, DMSA cannot distinguish between renal scar and acute pyelonephritis (AP) ...
Reagents and antibodies were from Sigma-Aldrich, Roche, Invitrogen, R&D Systems, Santa Cruz Biotech, or Merck-Millipore. [U-14 C]-2-deoxyglucose (9,250 kBq [250 μCi]/mmol) was from New England Nuclear ...
Data were collected in 2 separate protocols, 1 to evaluate the dose-range flexibility and 1 to assess test–retest variability. In both protocols, subjects were recruited from the community by the ...
Results In vivo assessment of these new 99m Tc-complexes indicates structure-related distribution and localization. At 1 h post administration, complex Tc-L2 exhibits an in vivo tumor uptake of 4.09% ...
Objectives Stability of normal tissue background radiotracer activity is essential for reliable FDG tumor quantification across sequential studies. However, only limited data demonstrates stability of ...
Objectives Indocyanine green (ICG) is a clinically used near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence imaging agent. Major disadvantages of ICG include limited stability in aqueous solution and short plasma ...
Objectives There are numerous reports in the medical literature of false positive foci in post-therapy I-131 images in thyroid cancer patients. These include: mucocele, pleural effusion, pericardial ...