Takayasu arteritis, a rare granulomatous vasculitis affecting young people, is associated
with considerable morbidity and premature mortality. In most patients the diagnosis is …

Nuclear medicine plays an important role in the evaluation of infection and inflammation.
Fluorine 18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) is a readily available radiotracer that offers rapid …

To improve the bioimaging signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR), long‐term imaging capability, and
decrease the potential biotoxicity, an in vivo cross‐linking strategy was developed by using …

Background: The expanding use of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography
(18F-FDG PET) has led to the identification of increasing numbers of patients with an …

Purpose In cancer of unknown primary (CUP), positron emission tomography/computed
tomography (PET/CT) with the glucose analog [18 F] FDG represents the standard imaging …

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of three major infectious diseases, and the control of TB is
becoming more difficult because of the emergence of multidrug-resistant and extensively …

Pneumocystis is an opportunistic fungal pathogen that causes an often-lethal pneumonia in
immunocompromised hosts. Although the organism was discovered in the early 1900s, the …

18F-FDG PET is emerging as a useful tool in the staging and restaging of many malignant
neoplasms, such as lymphoma, lung cancer, colorectal cancer, head and neck cancer …

The past decade has witnessed the emergence of yet another promising application of 18F-
fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) imaging in the detection and …

It is estimated that in excess of one million positron emission tomography (PET) scans are
performed each year and PET can now truly be regarded as a routine imaging procedure in …