Nuclear imaging of the breast: translating achievements in instrumentation into clinical use

CB Hruska, MK O'Connor - Medical physics, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Approaches to imaging the breast with nuclear medicine and/or molecular imaging methods
have been under investigation since the late 1980s when a technique called …

Radionuclide-based imaging of breast cancer: state of the art

H Li, Z Liu, L Yuan, K Fan, Y Zhang, W Cai, X Lan - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Breast cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed malignant tumors,
possessing high incidence and mortality rates that threaten women's health. Thus, early and …

Evaluation of fully 3-D emission mammotomography with a compact cadmium zinc telluride detector

CN Brzymialkiewicz, MP Tornai… - IEEE transactions on …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A compact, dedicated cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) gamma camera coupled with a fully
three-dimensional (3-D) acquisition system may serve as a secondary diagnostic tool for …

Breast scintigraphy: procedure guidelines for tumour imaging

E Bombardieri, C Aktolun, RP Baum… - European Journal of …, 2003 - Springer
Aim The aim of this document is to provide general information about breast scintigraphy in
patients with known or suspected breast cancer. This guideline does not include all the …

99mTC-sestamibi breast imaging: Current status, new ideas and future perspectives

N Urbano, M Scimeca, V Tancredi, E Bonanno… - Seminars in Cancer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Here we proposed the most recent innovations in the use of Breast Specific Gamma Imaging
with 99 mTc-sestamibi for the management of breast cancer patients. To this end, we …

Review article Male breast cancer–an andrological disease: risk factors and diagnosis

W Krause - Andrologia, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Gynaecomastia, the enlargement of the male breast, is considered as an andrological
disease. To date, a review on male breast cancer (MBC) has not been published in an …

Evaluation of brain tumor recurrence by 99mTc-tetrofosmin SPECT: a prospective pilot study

GA Alexiou, AD Fotopoulos, A Papadopoulos… - Annals of nuclear …, 2007 - Springer
Objective The differentiation between brain tumor recurrence and post-irradiation injury
remains an imaging challenge. Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance …

Scintimammography with a hybrid SPECT/CT imaging system

O Schillaci, R Danieli, L Filippi, P Romano… - Anticancer …, 2007 - ar.iiarjournals.org
Background: Planar scintimammography is useful for characterizing breast lesions> 10 mm.
Our aim was to evaluate Tc-99m sestamibi scintimammography with a hybrid (SPECT/CT) …

Mammotomography with pinhole incomplete circular orbit SPECT

MP Tornai, JE Bowsher, RJ Jaszczak… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2003 - Soc Nuclear Med
Dedicated mammotomography with pinhole incomplete circular orbit (PICO) SPECT imaging
of an uncompressed pendant breast was evaluated with small, very-high-stopping-power …

Comparison of Tc-99m maraciclatide and Tc-99m sestamibi molecular breast imaging in patients with suspected breast cancer

MK O'Connor, MMB Morrow, KN Hunt, JC Boughey… - EJNMMI research, 2017 - Springer
Background Molecular breast imaging (MBI) performed with 99m Tc sestamibi has been
shown to be a valuable technique for the detection of breast cancer. Alternative radiotracers …