No abstract available.
Osteochondritis ; Osteochondritis Dissecans

No abstract available.
Carcinoma in Situ ; Gas, Natural

No abstract available.
Adenocarcinoma ; Rectum

Simple bone cyst (SBC) is very rare in adult ribs. The diagnosis basically relies on conventional radiography and occasionally on CT. There has been no earlier publication on PET/CT diagnosis of SBC. We report a case of adult costal SBC diagnosed by positive 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake. Histology showed the FDG uptake to be associated with reactive woven bone formation and nonspecific chronic inflammation. Correlation of PET, CT, plain radiography and sonography are also described.
Adult ; Bone Cysts ; Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 ; Humans ; Inflammation ; Osteogenesis ; Publications ; Ribs

No abstract available.
Colon ; Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 ; Ulcer

No abstract available.
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 ; Neurilemmoma ; Spine

No abstract available.
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 ; Humans ; Lymphoid Tissue ; Lymphoma

No abstract available.
Muscles ; Necrosis ; Rhabdomyolysis ; Thigh

No abstract available.
Rhabdomyolysis ; Swimming

Image fusion is fast catching attention as Wagner pointed out in his 2006 version of the recent progress and development presented at the annual meeting of Society of Nuclear Medicine. Prototypical fusion of bone scan and radiograph was already attempted at in 1961 when Fleming et al. published an article on strontium-85 bone scan. They simply superimposed dot scan on radiograph enabling simultaneous assessment of altered bone metabolism and local bone anatomy. Indeed the parallel reading of images of bone scan and radiography, CT, MRI or ultrasonography has been practiced in nuclear medicine long since. It is fortunate that recent development of computer science and technology along with the availability of refined CT and SPECT machines has permitted us to open a new avenue to digitally produce precise fusion image so that they can readily be read, exchanged and disseminated using internet. Ten years ago fusion was performed using Bresstrahlung SPECT/CT and it is now achievable by PET/CT and SPECT/CT software and SPECT/CT hardware. The merit of image fusion is its feasibility of reliable assessment of morphological and metabolic change. It is now applicable not only to stationary organs such as brain and skeleton but also to moving organs such as the heart, lung and stomach. Recently, we could create useful fusion image of cardiac SPECT and 64-channel CT angiograph. The former provided myocardial metabolic profile and the latter vascular narrowing in two patients with coronary artery stenosis and myocardial ischemia. Arterial stenosis was severe in Case 1 and mild in Case 2.
Angiography* ; Brain ; Constriction, Pathologic ; Coronary Stenosis* ; Coronary Vessels* ; Heart ; Humans ; Internet ; Lung ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Metabolism ; Metabolome ; Microcomputers* ; Myocardial Ischemia ; Nuclear Medicine ; Positron-Emission Tomography and Computed Tomography ; Radiography ; Skeleton ; Stomach ; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon* ; Ultrasonography