[PDF] Top 20 PET/MRI and PET/CT in follow-up of head and neck cancer patients

... advantage of a cePET/MRI is currently the somewhat lower radiation dose, although this might be irrel- evant, especially in HNC patients who receive ...contrast of MRI, its ... Voir le document complet

... TNM-staging and therapy alterations Only a few studies have been published concerning combined imaging with PET/CT in head and neck cancer and mainly lesion ... Voir le document complet

... FDG- PET/CT findings with panendoscopy in every ...installation of a new scanner during the study, the imaging technique was not exactly the same for all ...our head and ... Voir le document complet

... field-of-view of only 19.1 cm, the hybrid PET/MRI system applied in this study (Siemens BrainPET) cannot replace PET/CT imaging in most of its indications, ... Voir le document complet

... FDG PET/CT is crucial before neck surgery for nodal recurrence detection in radioiodine-refractory differenti- ated or poorly differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC/ PDTC), as the surgeon’s ... Voir le document complet

... treatment, and the treatment plan before and after ...CH-PET/CT and at the end of follow-up were also obtained from the ...Mean follow-up was 42 ... Voir le document complet

... OS in univariate analysis, but not in multivariate ...28 patients were included in this study, which may explain this negative ...volume of FDG activity in a tumor assessed by ... Voir le document complet

... regimes. In all the patients, the distant metastases were not detected at primary staging but during follow-up after resection of the primary ...tumor. In two patients, ... Voir le document complet

... considered in this cost- effectiveness ...regardless of the nadir value, for non- surgical first-line definitive treatments (radiation ther- apy, brachytherapy, high-intensity focused ...treated and ... Voir le document complet

... months). PET/CT acquisition All patients underwent FDG PET/CT for staging before ...the in- jection of 4 MBq/kg of 18 ...before CT scanning. After a 60-min ... Voir le document complet

... history of upper aero- digestive tract cancer and a follow-up of at least 3 months after the ...age and sex of patient, site and stage of the ... Voir le document complet

... use of hybrid machines such as PET/CT has greatly improved the accuracy of the technique allowing a better localisation and characterisation of abdominal FDG uptakes [ 23 ... Voir le document complet

... Patients and methods The records of all patients undergoing FDG PET or PET/CT at the Division of Nuclear Medicine of the University Hospital Zurich between ... Voir le document complet

... Imaging PET/CT The Philips Gemini (Philips Medical Systems, Cleveland, OH) was used for the 6 first patients and the Siemens Biograph (SIEMENS Healthineers Medical Solutions, Knoxville, TN) ... Voir le document complet

... in patients with bioptically proven local recurrence of PC and planned local salvage therapy, such as radiotherapy or high-intensity focused ultrasound therapy [ 25 ...]. In our ... Voir le document complet

... issue in textural analysis as showed in previous studies [ 36 ...calculated in 11 (25%), 15 (34%), and 6 (14%) patients with respectively 40%SUVmax, PET-EDGE and DAISNE ... Voir le document complet

... examples of 18 F-FDG and 18 F-FET PET scans are illustrated in ...1 and 2 ...F-FDG and 18 F-FET uptake in the primary tumor and the lymph node metastases with ... Voir le document complet

... Results Patients In 35 of 41 patients a malignant head and neck cancer was confirmed by histopathology (clinical stage, Table 1 ...). In 20 patients, ... Voir le document complet

... use of this new hybrid technology. Conclusion In this study, we showed that in patients with head and neck oncology, the PET data obtained with a sequential ... Voir le document complet

... field of view (FOV) 30¥30 cm; slice thickness 3 mm without gap; and the frequency-encoding direction was an- ...precontrast and four dynamic post-contrast ...use of this imaging protocol has ... Voir le document complet