State of the art of 18F-FDG PET/CT application in inflammation and infection: a guide for image acquisition and interpretation

M Casali, C Lauri, C Altini, F Bertagna… - Clinical and …, 2021 - Springer
Aim The diagnosis, severity and extent of a sterile inflammation or a septic infection could be
challenging since there is not one single test able to achieve an accurate diagnosis. The …

PET/CT imaging in soft tissue infection and inflammation—an update

E Arnon-Sheleg, O Israel, Z Keidar - Seminars in Nuclear Medicine, 2020 - Elsevier
Nuclear medicine procedures, including Ga-67 and labeled leucocyte SPECT/CT as well as
PET/CT using 18F-FDG and recently Ga-68 tracers, have found extensive applications in the …

Comparisons between biopsy-proven versus clinically diagnosed cardiac sarcoidosis

T Kitai, T Nabeta, Y Naruse, T Taniguchi, K Yoshioka… - Heart, 2022 - heart.bmj.com
Objectives Diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) without histological evidence remains
controversial. This study aimed to compare characteristics and outcomes of histologically …

MWG-UNet: Hybrid Deep Learning Framework for Lung Fields and Heart Segmentation in Chest X-ray Images

Y Lyu, X Tian - Bioengineering, 2023 - mdpi.com
Deep learning technology has achieved breakthrough research results in the fields of
medical computer vision and image processing. Generative adversarial networks (GANs) …

Imaging of Cardiac Sarcoidosis: An Update and Future Aspects

P Saric, JP Bois, JR Giudicessi, AN Rosenbaum… - Seminars in Nuclear …, 2024 - Elsevier
Cardiac sarcoidosis (CS), an increasingly recognized disease of unknown etiology, is
associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Given the limited diagnostic yield of …

Diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis: histological evidence vs. imaging

S Kurashima, T Kitai, A Xanthopoulos… - Expert Review of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction The prognosis for cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) remains unfavorable. Although early
and accurate diagnosis is crucial, the low detection rate of endomyocardial biopsy makes …

PET cardiac imaging (perfusion, viability, sarcoidosis, and infection)

PP Manapragada, E Andrikopoulou… - Radiologic …, 2021 - radiologic.theclinics.com
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18F-FDG/13N-ammonia cardiac PET findings in ATTR cardiac amyloidosis

KA Young, M Lyle, AN Rosenbaum, IC Chang… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract 18 F-flurodeoxyglycose (FDG)/13 N-ammonia positron emission
tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) is frequently utilized to evaluate cardiac …

[HTML][HTML] Cardiac sarcoidosis

K Hussain, M Shetty - StatPearls [Internet], 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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[HTML][HTML] Value of 18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-FDG PET/CT) in the differential diagnosis of sarcoidosis and lung …

X Chen, X Xu, S Chrysikos, M Zhao… - … Lung Cancer Research, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Fluorine 18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed
tomography (18F-FDG PET/CT) has been proven to be valuable in guiding the diagnosis …