Giant Merkel Cell Carcinoma Masquerading as a Benign Cyst on the Buttock of an African American Man by Marissa J. Perman, Janelle M. King, Laurel L. Leithauser, Hugh M. Gloster

“…The patient underwent wide local excision of the lesion with removal of the fascia overlying the gluteus and full body positron emission tomography (PET) and was found to have Stage IIb disease. …”
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Cosmic Rays Report from the Structure of Space by A. Annila

“…At about 1017.2 eV a distinct dissipative mechanism opens up for protons to slow down by electron-positron pair production. At about 1019.6 eV a more effective mechanism opens up via pion production. …”
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Multimodality Imaging Evaluation of an Uncommon Entity: Esophageal Heterotopic Pancreas by Takman Mack, Debra Lowry, Peter Carbone, Brian Barbick, Joshua Kindelan, Robert Marks

“…The patient underwent computed tomography (CT), fluoroscopic upper gastrointestinal (GI) evaluation, endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), and positron emission tomography (PET) evaluation, revealing the presence of a heterogeneous esophageal mass. …”
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Severely Disseminated Kaposi Sarcoma after ABO-Incompatible Kidney Transplantation Treated Successfully with Paclitaxel and Gemcitabine Combined with Hemodialysis by Tobias Bomholt, Anders Krarup-Hansen, Martin Egfjord, Søren Schwartz Sørensen, Niels Junker

“…There were no serious adverse events and the patient obtained a complete remission verified by Positron Emission Tomography CT after ending chemotherapy and at one-year follow up.…”
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Late Recovery from Severe Streptococcus pneumoniae Comatose Meningitis with Concomitant Diffuse Subcortical Cytotoxic Edema and Cortical Hypometabolism by Philippe Hantson, Thierry Duprez

“…Repeated brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examination failed to demonstrate venous thrombosis, arterial ischemic stroke, or brain abscesses but revealed diffuse but reversible cortical cytotoxic edema at diffusion-weighted (DW) sequences. The brain FDG-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) showed diffuse cortical hypometabolism. …”
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Case report: First reported case of spondylodiscitis caused by Gemella morbillorum in South Africa by J Pillay, N M van der Linden

“…A workup showed raised inflammatory markers, and a positron emission tomography scan indicated features of discitis at level L2/L3. …”
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Brain connectivity by single-photon emission computed tomography and graph theory: a mini-review by Carlos A. Sanchez-Catasus, Karla Batista-García-Ramó, Lester Melie-Garcia

“…Among these technologies, nuclear medicine neuroimaging such as positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) play a key role. …”
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Primary Neuroendocrine Tumor in Brain by Ryota Tamura, Yoshiaki Kuroshima, Yoshiki Nakamura

“…After discharge, CT and FDG-PET (fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose positron emission tomography) were performed every 3 months. …”
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Insight into the Molecular Imaging of Alzheimer’s Disease by Abishek Arora, Neeta Bhagat

“…Functional imaging like positron emission tomography (PET), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy provides a means of detecting and characterising the regional changes in brain blood flow, metabolism, and receptor binding sites that are associated with Alzheimer’s disease. …”
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Leptomeningeal Enhancement due to Neurosarcoidosis Mimicking Malignancy by Sahara N. Saltijeral, Horiana B. Grosu, Henriette De La Garza, Barbara O’Brien, Gloria Iliescu

“…An extensive infectious disease workup was negative. Positron emission tomography revealed hypermetabolic lymph nodes in the right mediastinum and right hilum, correlating with findings on endobronchial ultrasonography. …”
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Molecular Imaging in Tumor Angiogenesis and Relevant Drug Research by Xibo Ma, Jie Tian, Xin Yang, Chenghu Qin

“…Molecular imaging, including fluorescence imaging (FMI), bioluminescence imaging (BLI), positron emission tomography (PET), single-photon emission-computed tomography (SPECT), and computed tomography (CT), has a pivotal role in the process of tumor and relevant drug research. …”
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A Case of Lung Cancer with Brain Metastasis following Late-Onset Bipolar Disorder by Shin-Heng Shen, Shwu-Hua Lee

“…The patient was diagnosed with lung cancer with brain metastasis by brain magnetic resonance imaging and whole-body positron emission tomography. Conclusion. In geriatric patients, who are at high risk of multiple medical conditions, excluding secondary causes of bipolar disorder is important.…”
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Myocardial Viability: What We Knew and What Is New by Adel Shabana, Ayman El-Menyar

“…Nuclear cardiology techniques, dobutamine echocardiography and positron emission tomography are used to assess myocardial viability. …”
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Evidence-Based Cerebral Vasospasm Surveillance by Heather Kistka, Michael C. Dewan, J. Mocco

“…Continuous electroencephalography and older instruments such as positron emission tomography, xenon-enhanced CT, and single-photon emission computed tomography are also discussed. …”
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Amyloid Imaging in Aging and Dementia: Testing the Amyloid Hypothesis In Vivo by G. D. Rabinovici, W. J. Jagust

“…In this review we survey current amyloid imaging techniques, focusing on positron emission tomography (PET) with ^{11}carbon-labelled Pittsburgh Compound-B (11C-PIB), the most extensively studied and best validated tracer. …”
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Pneumo-PET-CT: Initial Results of This Novel Technique on the Evaluation of Esophageal and Gastric Tumors with Anatomic-Surgical Correlation by Facundo N. Diaz, Marina Ulla, Jose M. Lastiri, Fernando G. Wright, Demetrio Cavadas

“…We present the initial results of a novel hybrid scanning-based technique that combines pneumo-computed tomography (PNCT) with positron emission tomography (PET) using 2-(fluorine-18) fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG). …”
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PET-CT Imaging in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: A Narrative Review on Risk Stratification and Prognosis by Patrícia Marques-Alves, Lino Gonçalves, Maria João Ferreira

“…Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a heterogeneous cardiac disease and one of its major challenges is the limited accuracy in stratifying the risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD). Positron emission tomography (PET), through the evaluation of myocardial blood flow (MBF) and metabolism using fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake, can reveal microvascular dysfunction, ischemia, and increased metabolic demands in the hypertrophied myocardium. …”
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Solitary Lytic Bone Metastasis: A Rare Presentation of Small Lymphocytic Leukemia by Heather Katz, Steven Sagun, Doreen Griswold, Mohamed Alsharedi

“…We report a case of a 76-year-old Caucasian female presented with an unresolving pulmonary infiltrate with mediastinal lymphadenopathy concerning for malignancy. Positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) showed an infiltrative mass in the mediastinum with diffuse uptake and a hypermetabolic mass within the left iliac bone. …”
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Medical Images Segmentation Based on Unsupervised Algorithms: A Review by Revella E. A. Armya, Adnan Mohsin Abdulazeez

“…Therefore, researchers are attracted to apply new algorithms for medical image processing because it is a massive investment in developing medical imaging methods such as dermatoscopy, X-rays, microscopy, ultrasound, computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging. …”
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The impact of data from future lepton colliders on light hadrons fragmentation functions by Bin Zhou, Jun Gao

“…The high luminosity and high energies of future lepton colliders allow for quark flavor separations and ensure a precise determination of FFs based solely on data from electron-positron collisions. We find that either the CEPC, FCC-ee or ILC can significantly reduce the uncertainties of FFs in a wide kinematic range, compared to the NPC23 set obtained with a global analysis to current world data. …”
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