pISSN 1229-9901eISSN 2982-8406
Han-Kyung Seo, Do-Cheol Choi , Cheol-Min Shim , Jin-Hyeong Jo
A 55-year-old female patient, referred by the endocrine metabolism department, was recommended for orthopedic surgery because a lesion was found in the proximal femur in the bone mineral densitometry (BMD). Pelvis AP and frog-leg images performed by the orthopedic ......
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Anh Thu Nguyen and Hee-Kwon Kim
Hypoxia indicates the condition of low oxygen levels in tissues. In oncology, hypoxia can induce cancer progression and metastasis, as well as cause resistance to cancer therapies. The detection of hypoxia by using molecular imaging, particularly, positron emission tomography ......
Han-Kyung Seo, Do-Cheol Choi, Cheol-Min Shim, Jin-Hyeong Jo
Purpose: The precision error of a bone density meter reflects the equipment and reproducibility of results by an examiner. Precision error values can be expressed as coefficient of variation (CV), CV%, and root mean square-SD (RMS-SD). The International Society for Clinical Densitometry ......
Hyunsoo Ko, Soonki Park, Eunhye Kim, Jongsook Choi, Wooyoung Jung and Dongyun Lee
Purpose: CT scan makes up for the weak point of the nuclear medicine image having a low resolution and also were used for attenuation correction on image reconstruction. Recently, many studies try to make use of CT images additionally, one of them is to measure ......
In Suk Kwak, Hyuk Lee, Si Hwal Kim and Seung Cheol Moon
Purpose: Gallium-68 (68Ga) is increasingly used in nuclear medicine imaging for various conditions such as lymphoma and neuroendocrine tumors by labeling tracers like Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA) and DOTA-TOC. However, compared to Fluorine-18 ......
Eunsoo Kim, Chanrok Park
Purpose: Positron emisson tomography (PET) is a crucial medical imaging scanner for the detection of cancer lesions. In order to maintain the improved image quality, it is crucial to apply detectors of superior performance. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to ......
Dong Hyuk Ha, Hwa-Jin Ryu, Hyun-Su Cho, Sun-Young Shin
Purpose: Prolactin in the blood is separated into three types, and over 90% of prolactin presents as a double monomer (23 KDa). Rarely, it can exist in the size of big prolactin (150 KDa), which is called macroprolactin and is known as an autoantibody complex. When ......