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Validation of the HPLC Analytical Method for the Determination of Chemical and Radiochemical Purity of Ga-68-DOTATATE

Antonino Sammartano, Silvia Migliari, Giulio Serreli, Maura Scarlattei, Giorgio Baldari, Livia Ruffini

Indian J Nucl Med 38:1; 1-7

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_11_22

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Early Demonstration of Spontaneous Perinodal Lymphangiogenesis by Lymphoscintigraphy after Vascularized Lymph Node Transplantation – A Pilot Study

Padma Subramanyam, R Janarthanan, Shanmuga Sundaram Palaniswamy

Indian J Nucl Med 37:1; 1-6

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_123_21

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Comparison of Epicardial Fat Volume between Patients with Normal Perfusion and Reversible Perfusion Abnormalities on Myocardial Perfusion Imaging

Yeseshvi Kilambi, Dhanapathi Halanaik, Ramesh Ananthakrishnan, Jyoti Mishra

Indian J Nucl Med 36:1; 1-6

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_157_20

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Comparative Study between ¹⁸F FDG-PET/CT and Whole Body MRI DWIBS in Assessment of Recurrent Breast Cancer (Prospective, Comparative, Cross-sectional Study Design)

Mahmoud Rezk, Ibrahim Nasr, Ismail Ali, Heba Abdelhamed

Indian J Nucl Med 34:1; 1-9

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_121_18

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Radiation Dose to the Occupational Worker during the Synthesis of ¹⁸⁸Re-labeled Radiopharmaceuticals in the Nuclear Medicine Department

Parul Thakral, Jyotsna, Pankaj Tandon, Sugandha Dureja, Vineet Pant, Ishita Sen

Indian J Nucl Med 33:1; 1-5

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_133_17

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Hypothetical Model for the Suppression of Stress Induced Apoptosis in Hematopoietic Stem Cells by Bcl-2 Mutants

Gurudatta U Gangenahalli, Yogeah Kumar Verma, Vimal Kishor Singh, Pallavi Gupta, Ramesh Chandra, Rakesh Kumar Sharma, H. G. Raj

Indian J Nucl Med 21:1; 1-11

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Technetium-99m Methoxyisobutyl Isonitrile Stress MPI in Suspected Coronary Artery Disease Patients: A Prospective Study to Evaluate Clinical Significance of Adenosine-induced ECG Changes

N C Valaiyapathy, Ramya Priya Rallapeta, D S Hemalatha, VS Krishna Mohan, D Rajasekhar, Tekchand Kalawat

Indian J Nucl Med 39:1; 2-9

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_71_23

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Dual-time-point positron emission tomography findings of benign mediastinal fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose uptake in tuberculosis-endemic region

Dae-Weung Kim, Soon-Ah Park, Chang Guhn Kim

Indian J Nucl Med 26:1; 3-6

DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.84586

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F-18 fluoride positron emission tomography/computed tomography in the diagnosis of avascular necrosis of the femoral head: Comparison with magnetic resonance imaging

Shankaramurthy Gayana, Anish Bhattacharya, Ramesh Kumar Sen, Paramjeet Singh, Mahesh Prakash, Bhagwant Rai Mittal

Indian J Nucl Med 31:1; 3-8

DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.172337

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Parathyroid scintigraphy, histopathology correlation in patients with tropical pancreatitis and coexisting primary hyperparathyroidism

Subramanyam Padma, Palaniswamy Shanmuga Sundaram

Indian J Nucl Med 28:1; 5-10

DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.116796

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Reduction in relapse rate of radioiodine therapy in patients of toxic multinodular goiter: A quality improvement project

Sujata Mitra, Sonai G Muthu

Indian J Nucl Med 27:1; 5-9

DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.108824

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Semiquantitative Interpretation Criteria for Fluorodeoxyglucose-Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in Large-Vessel Vasculitis: Pattern Recognition and Correlation with Polymyalgia Rheumatica

Dharmender Malik, Ritu Verma, Vanshika Gupta, Ethel Shangne Belho, Babita Drolia, Nikhil Seniaray, Harsh Mahajan

Indian J Nucl Med 35:1; 6-12

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_136_19

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Reduction of Radiation Exposure to Patients and Professionals by Reducing the Administered Activity of 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose in a Positron-emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Study

Sneha Mithun, Ashish Kumar Jha, Ameya D Puranik, Priya Monteiro, Sneha Shah, Archi Agarwal, Nilendu C Purandare, Venkatesh Rangarajan

Indian J Nucl Med 33:1; 6-9

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_103_17

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Sestamibi (99mTc) scan as a single localization modality in primary hyperparathyroidism and factors impacting its accuracy

Yousof Alabdulkarim, Edgard Nassif

Indian J Nucl Med 25:1; 6-9

DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.63591

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Quality Assessment of Tc-99m Methylene Diphosphonate (MDP) Radiopharmaceutical Prepared Using Different Cold Kit Fractionation Methods

Arun Kumar Thokchom, Rajesh Kumar, Sanjay Bharati, Vasumathi

Indian J Nucl Med 37:1; 7-11

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_115_21

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Optimal Standardized Uptake Value Threshold for Auto contouring of Gross Tumor Volume using Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in Patients with Operable Nonsmall-Cell Lung Cancer: Comparison with Pathological Tumor Size

Anil Tibdewal, Mangesh Patil, Shagun Misra, Nilendu Purandare, Venkatesh Rangarajan, Naveen Mummudi, George Karimundackal, Sabita Jiwnani, Jaiprakash Agarwal

Indian J Nucl Med 36:1; 7-13

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_134_20

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Prevalence of myocardial perfusion abnormalities in end-stage liver disease

Ahmed Fathala, Bander Safar, Ahmed Al Muhaideb

Indian J Nucl Med 26:1; 7-10

DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.84588

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Radio-adaptive Response in Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Induced by Technetium-99m

Mohammad Mehdi Shirazi, Ali Shabestani-Monfared, Maryam Shahidi, Mehrangiz Amiri, Seyed Mohammad Abedi, Sajad Borzoueisileh, Kourosh Ebrahim Nejad Gorji

Indian J Nucl Med 32:1; 7-10

DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.198446

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99m-Tc MDP Bone Scan Image Enhancement using Pipeline Application of Dynamic Stochastic Resonance Algorithm and Block-Matching 3D Filter

Anil Kumar Pandey, Gagandeep Kaur, Jagrati Chaudhary, Angel Hemrom, Jasim Jaleel, Param Dev Sharma, Chetan Patel, Rakesh Kumar

Indian J Nucl Med 38:1; 8-15

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_78_22

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Validation of virtual spectrometer created in RADlab1.03

Anil Kumar Pandey, Chetan Patel, Chandrasekhar Bal, Rakesh Kumar

Indian J Nucl Med 30:1; 9-15

DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.147526

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Preparation of 3-Bromo-2,4,6-Trimethyl Hida and Its ^99MTc-Complex for Hepatobiliary Imaging

Kh Nurmatov, A Z Rikhsiev, S Khujaev, B N Myasnik, A Malhotra

Indian J Nucl Med 22:1; 9-12

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Feasibility study of axillary reverse mapping lymphoscintigraphy in carcinoma breast: A concept toward preventing lymphedema

Sunny J. Gandhi, C. Satish, Palaniswamy Shanmuga Sundaram, Padma Subramanyam, D. K. Vijaykumar

Indian J Nucl Med 31:1; 9-13

DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.172341

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Role of 6-Fluoro-18F-l-3,4-DOPA MR-PET in Clinical Workup in Movement Disorders Cases: An Exploratory Study in a Tertiary Care Neuropsychiatric Setup

Keerti Sitani, Sandhya Mangalore, Manoj Kumar Verma, Pardeep Kumar, Pawan Bairwa Btech, Venkatesh Murthy Konappa Agrahara Shama

Indian J Nucl Med 40:1; 10-15

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_151_23

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Role of 2-(fluorine-18) Fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in Initial Staging and Bone Marrow Involvement Prediction in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Lymphoma in Correlation with Bone Marrow Study

Sarin Krishna, Mudalsha Ravina, Siddhartha Nanda, Tinu Thadiyananickal Lukose, Amal Moideen, Himanshu Bansal, Subhajit Dasgupta, Rutuja Kote

Indian J Nucl Med 39:1; 10-17

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_116_23

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Utility of single photon emission computed tomography perfusion scans in radiation treatment planning of locally advanced lung cancers

Sushma Agrawal, M Karthick Raj, Subhash Chand Kheruka, KJ Maria Das, Sanjay Gambhir

Indian J Nucl Med 27:1; 10-15

DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.108830

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Correlation of Maximum Standardized Uptake Values in 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography-computed Tomography Scan with Immunohistochemistry and Other Prognostic Factors in Breast Cancer

Zakir Ali Abubakar, Naveen Kumar Reddy Akepati, Prathyusha Bikkina

Indian J Nucl Med 34:1; 10-13

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_94_18

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Impact of the Amount of Liquid Intake on the Dose Rate of Patients Treated with Radioiodine

Mahdi Haghighatafshar, Aida Banani, Banafsheh Zeinali-Rafsanjani, Zahra Etemadi, Tahereh Ghaedian

Indian J Nucl Med 33:1; 10-13

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_90_17

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Physical dosimetry and mathematical dose calculation in nuclear medicine: A comparative study

Ali Shabestani Monfared, Mehrangiz Amiri

Indian J Nucl Med 25:1; 10-11

DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.63592

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Usefulness of asymmetry score on quantitative three-phase bone scintigraphy in the evaluation of complex regional pain syndrome

Santhosh Sampath, Bhagwant Rai Mittal, Sasikumar Arun, Ashwani Sood, Anish Bhattacharya, Aman Sharma

Indian J Nucl Med 28:1; 11-16

DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.116798

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Estimation of radiation dose received by the radiation worker during F-18 FDG injection process

Ashish Kumar Jha, Anand Zade, Venkatesh Rangarajan

Indian J Nucl Med 26:1; 11-13

DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.84591

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Global and Regional Gastric Emptying Parameters: Establishment of Reference Values and Comparison of Different Camera View Methods

Tabassum Saifi, Abhinav Singhal, Priyanka Gupta, Khangembam Bangkim Chandra, Anil Kumar Pandey, Chetan Patel, Rakesh Kumar

Indian J Nucl Med 37:1; 12-22

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_113_21

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Tc-99m radio-guided completion thyroidectomy for differentiated thyroid carcinoma

Savaş Karyağar, Oğuzhan Karatepe, Ömer Bender, Mehmet Mulazımoğlu, Tevfik Özpaçaci, Ercan Uyanık, Sevda S Karyağar, Orhan Yalçın, Yaşar Özdenkaya

Indian J Nucl Med 25:1; 12-15

DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.63593

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Prevention of Radiation-Induced Clastogenic Effect by Diltiazem in Mouse Bone Marrow

Archana Jindal, V. Nunia, P.K. Goyal

Indian J Nucl Med 21:1; 12-17

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⁶⁸Ga-DOTATATE positron emission tomography/computed tomography scan in the detection of bone metastases in pediatric neuroendocrine tumors

Reema Goel, Jaya Shukla, Deepak Bansal, Kushaljit Sodhi, Anish Bhattacharya, Ram Kumar Marwaha, Bhagwant Rai Mittal

Indian J Nucl Med 29:1; 13-17

DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.125762

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Does Intravenous Contrast Improve the Diagnostic Yield of Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron-emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in Patients with Head-and-neck Malignancy

Sukanta Barai, Manish Ora, Sanjay Gambhir, Amit Singh

Indian J Nucl Med 35:1; 13-16

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_119_19

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Value of Indium-111 Octreotide Scintigraphy in Neuroendocrine Tumors

Anjali Jain, Ishita Sen, Pankaj Promila, Mohan Parul, Ritu Verma, Vineet Pant

Indian J Nucl Med 22:1; 13-16

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Optimization of Ordered Subset Expectation Maximization Parameters for Image Reconstruction in Tc-99m Methoxyisobutylisonitrile Myocardial Perfusion SPECT and Comparison with Corresponding Filtered Back Projection-Reconstructed Images

Pankaj Dheer, Priyanka Gupta, Sameer Kamalakar Taywade, Averilicia Passah, Anil Kumar Pandey, Chetan Patel

Indian J Nucl Med 36:1; 14-20

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_140_20

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A study to improve the image quality in low-dose computed tomography (SPECT) using filtration

SC Kheruka, UC Naithani, AK Maurya, NK Painuly, LM Aggarwal, S Gambhir

Indian J Nucl Med 26:1; 14-21

DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.84595

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Molecular Imaging to the Surgeons Rescue: Gallium-68 DOTA-Exendin-4 Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography in Pre-operative Localization of Insulinomas

UN Pallavi, Vindhya Malasani, Ishita Sen, Parul Thakral, Sugandha Dureja, Vineet Pant, Vinay Samuel Gaikwad, Arvind Sabharwal

Indian J Nucl Med 34:1; 14-18

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_119_18

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Comparison of Left Ventricular Phase Parameters Analysis between Two Software Programs in Patients with Normal Gated Single-photon Emission Computed Tomography-Myocardial Perfusion Imaging

Dharmender Malik, Ashwani Sood, Madan Parmar, Bhagwant Rai Mittal

Indian J Nucl Med 33:1; 14-19

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_119_17

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Diagnostic importance of contrast enhanced ¹⁸F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission computed tomography in patients with tumor induced osteomalacia: Our experience

Avani S. Jain, Simon Shelley, Indirani Muthukrishnan, Shilpa Kalal, Jaykanth Amalachandran, Sureshkumar Chandran

Indian J Nucl Med 31:1; 14-19

DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.172344

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Utility of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Evaluating Focal Hepatic Uptake on 18F-FDG PET/CT Without a Computed Tomography Correlate in Patients with Known Malignancy – A Single-Center Retrospective Study

Fatema Sultan Al Jabri, Ishaq Sulaiman Al Salmi, Khalsa Zahran Al Nabhani

Indian J Nucl Med 41:1; 15-20

DOI: 10.25259/IJNM_26_24

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Sentinel Lymph Node Detection in Early-stage Ovarian Cancer Using Radionuclide Technetium-99m Sulfur Colloid – A Feasibility Study

Ayush Heda, Shalini Rajaram, Anupama Bahadur, Amrita Gaurav, Vandana Kumar Dhingra, Nilotpal Chowdhury, Manishi L Narayan, Jaya Chaturvedi, Parmita Tiwari, Pallavi Verma

Indian J Nucl Med 40:1; 16-21

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_149_24

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Validation of Deauville Score for Response Evaluation in Hodgkin's Lymphoma

Junita Rachel John, Regi Oommen, Julie Hephzibah, David Mathew, Anu Korula, Nylla Shanthly, Anu Eapen

Indian J Nucl Med 38:1; 16-22

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_102_22

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Does the intensity of diffuse thyroid gland uptake on F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography scan predict the severity of hypothyroidism? Correlation between maximal standardized uptake value and serum thyroid stimulating hormone levels

Ankur Pruthi, Partha Sarathi Choudhury, Manoj Gupta, Sameer Taywade

Indian J Nucl Med 30:1; 16-20

DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.147528

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The role of salivary gland scintigraphy in detection of salivary gland dysfunction in type 2 diabetic patients

Balasubramanian Senthil Kumar, Sankara Pandian Sathasivasubramanian

Indian J Nucl Med 27:1; 16-19

DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.108832

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Radioiodine Therapy of Graves' Disease and the Uptake Paradox

Sumeet Suresh Malapure, Anirban Mukherjee, Chandrasekar Bal

Indian J Nucl Med 35:1; 17-20

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_158_19

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Role of Scintimammography in the Evaluation of Response to Neo – Adjuvant Chemo – Radiotherapy in Cancer of Breast

R Krishnakumar, R Priyadarshini, B B Begum, K Manivannan, B Shanmugasundaram, S Anuradha, A V Lakshmanan

Indian J Nucl Med 22:1; 17-20

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Standardization and Clinical Use of a Single-vial Formulation of Technetium-99m-Trodat Using Autoclave Method

Riptee Thakur, Chandana Nagaraj, Raman Kumar Joshi, Jitender Saini, Ravi Yadav, Pardeep Kumar

Indian J Nucl Med 39:1; 18-23

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_104_23

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Novel paint design based on nanopowder to protection against X and gamma rays

Mohammad Mehdi Movahedi, Adibe Abdi, Alireza Mehdizadeh, Naser Dehghan, Emad Heidari, Yusef Masumi, Mojtaba Abbaszadeh

Indian J Nucl Med 29:1; 18-21

DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.125763

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Diagnostic Utility and Clinical Significance of Three Phase Bone Scan in Symptomatic Accessory Navicular Bone

Pushpalatha Sudhakar, Anshu Rajneesh Sharma, G Narsimhulu, VVS Prabhakar

Indian J Nucl Med 21:1; 18-22

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Impact of Body Mass Index on Gates Method of Glomerular Filtration Rate Estimation: A Comparative Study with Single Plasma Sample Method

Amit Nautiyal, Anirban Mukherjee, Deepanjan Mitra, Piyali Chatterjee, Anindya Roy

Indian J Nucl Med 34:1; 19-23

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_112_18

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Multivariate analysis of various factors affecting background liver and mediastinal standardized uptake values

Manohar Kuruva, Bhagwant Rai Mittal, Mohammed Labeeb Abrar, Raghava Kashyap, Anish Bhattacharya

Indian J Nucl Med 27:1; 20-23

DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.108835

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Vitamins E and C Prevent DNA Double-strand Breaks in Peripheral Lymphocytes Exposed to Radiations from Iodine-131

Mehdi Safaei, Seyed Masoud Jafarpour, Mehran Mohseni, Morteza Salimian, Hossein Akbari, Fateme Karami, Akbar Aliasgharzadeh, Bagher Farhood

Indian J Nucl Med 33:1; 20-24

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_89_17

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Digital contrast enhancement of ¹⁸Fluorine-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography images in hepatocellular carcinoma

Anil Kumar Pandey, Sanjay Kumar Sharma, Krishan Kant Agarwal, Punit Sharma, Chandrasekhar Bal, Rakesh Kumar

Indian J Nucl Med 31:1; 20-26

DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.172346

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Role of FDG PET/CT in assessing response to targeted therapy in metastatic lung cancers: Morphological versus metabolic criteria

Ameya D. Puranik, Nilendu C. Purandare, Sneha Shah, Archi Agrawal, Venkatesh Rangarajan

Indian J Nucl Med 30:1; 21-25

DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.147529

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Role of Technetium-99m-Ethylenedicysteine in the Calculation of Differential Renal Function: A Comparison Study with Dimercaptosuccinic Acid Renal Scintigraphy

Raheleh Hedayati, Sepideh Hekmat, Fereydoun Rastgou, Nahid Yaghoobi, Hasan Firoozabadi, Ahmad Bitarafan-Rajabi, Hadi Malek, Somaie Arabshameli

Indian J Nucl Med 36:1; 21-24

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_94_20

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Methylene Diphosphonate Bone Scan Scintigraphic Image Enhancement using Gamma Correction and Optimizing the Value of Gamma

Anshul Sharma, Anil Kumar Pandey, Deepak Khichi, Rakesh Kumar

Indian J Nucl Med 35:1; 21-27

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_128_19

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Functional Anatomical Mapping Technique Using Independent Nuclear Medicine and Ct Acquisitions

L P Kashyap, M Satyanarayana

Indian J Nucl Med 22:1; 21-23

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Clinical Utility of FDG PET-CT in Acute Febrile Illness and Fever of Unknown Origin

Meivel Angamuthu, Krishna S. Nair, Murali Alagesan

Indian J Nucl Med 41:01; 21-29

DOI: 10.25259/IJNM_106_25

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Comparison of single photon emission computed tomography-computed tomography, computed tomography, single photon emission computed tomography and planar scintigraphy for characterization of isolated skull lesions seen on bone scintigraphy in cancer patients

Punit Sharma, Tarun Kumar Jain, Rama Mohan Reddy, Nauroze Ashgar Faizi, Chandrasekhar Bal, Arun Malhotra, Rakesh Kumar

Indian J Nucl Med 29:1; 22-29

DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.125766

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Size-dependent thresholding as an optimal method for tumor volume delineation on positron emission tomography–computed tomography: A Phantom study

Arun Gupta, Punit Sharma, Chetan D Patel, Sagar Maharjan, Anil Pandey, Rakesh Kumar, Arun Malhotra

Indian J Nucl Med 26:1; 22-26

DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.84598

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Estimating Center of Rotation of Single-Photon Emission Computerized Tomography Projection Images Using MATLAB for Standardization and Calibration

Anil Kumar Pandey, Jagrati Chaudhary, Gagandeep Kaur, Priya Yadav, Param Dev Sharma, Chetan Patel, Rakesh Kumar

Indian J Nucl Med 38:1; 23-33

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_110_22

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Evaluation of Radiation Exposure to the Patients Undergoing Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography-Guided Biopsies

Krishnapriya Deva, Nivedita Rana, Rajender Kumar, Bhagwant Rai Mittal

Indian J Nucl Med 37:1; 23-28

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_112_21

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Determination of Frequency of Type 2 Deiodinase Thr92Ala Polymorphism (rs225014) in ¹³¹I-treated Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Patients Undertaking L-thyroxine (L-T4) Suppression Therapy

Smita Gawandi, Kumarasamy Jothivel, Savita Kulkarni

Indian J Nucl Med 39:1; 24-28

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_120_23

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Use of benzodiazepines before ¹⁸F-FDG-PET/CT dual-phase imaging does not decrease the efficacy of the study

Filiz Özülker, Tamer Özülker, Tevfik Özpaçacı

Indian J Nucl Med 27:1; 24-29

DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.108838

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Evaluation of Acceptance Angle in Iodine-131 Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography Imaging with Monte Carlo Simulation

Hicham Asmi, Farida Bentayeb, Youssef Bouzekraoui, Faustino Bonutti

Indian J Nucl Med 34:1; 24-26

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_109_18

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Early Quantification of Salivary Gland Function after Radioiodine Therapy

Karan Singh Tanwar, Nivedita Rana, Bhagwant Rai Mittal, Anish Bhattacharya

Indian J Nucl Med 36:1; 25-31

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_158_20

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Scintigraphic Evaluation of Esophageal Motility and Gastroesophageal Reflux in Patients Presenting with Upper Respiratory Tract Symptoms

Jaykanth Amalachandran, Shelley Simon, Indirani Elangoven, Avani Jain, Thangalakshmi Sivathapandi

Indian J Nucl Med 33:1; 25-31

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_97_17

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Technetium-99m dimercaptosuccinic acid scan in evaluation of renal cortical scarring: Is it mandatory to do single photon emission computerized tomography?

Hussein Rabie Saleh Farghaly, Mohamed Hosny Mohamed Sayed

Indian J Nucl Med 30:1; 26-30

DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.147530

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Effect of Causative Micro-organisms on Patterns of Labeled White Blood Cells in Osteomyelitis

Shorouk Faleh Dannoon, Wadha Al-Fouzan, Saud Ashwee Alenezi, Asma’a Alosaimi, Mohammad Alhusain, Abdelhamid Helmy Elgazzar

Indian J Nucl Med 34:1; 27-31

DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_117_18

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