Accuracy of [18F]Fluorodopa Positron Emission Tomography for Diagnosing and Localizing Focal Congenital Hyperinsulinism

…, M Hernandez-Pampaloni, JR Saffer… - The Journal of …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Objectives: Focal lesions in infants with congenital hyperinsulinism (HI) represent areas of
adenomatosis that express a paternally derived ATP-sensitive potassium channel mutation …

Qualification of PET scanners for use in multicenter cancer clinical trials: the American College of Radiology Imaging Network experience

JS Scheuermann, JR Saffer, JS Karp… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2009 - Soc Nuclear Med
The PET Core Laboratory of the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN)
qualifies sites to participate in multicenter research trials by quantitatively reviewing …

Diagnosis and localization of focal congenital hyperinsulinism by 18F-fluorodopa PET scan

OT Hardy, M Hernandez-Pampaloni, JR Saffer… - The Journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVES: To assess the accuracy of 18 F-fluoro-l-dihydroxyphenylalanine ([ 18 F]-DOPA)
PET scans to diagnose focal versus diffuse disease and to localize focal lesions in infants …

N, N-Dimethyl-2-(2-amino-4-18F-fluorophenylthio)-benzylamine (4-18F-ADAM): an improved PET radioligand for serotonin transporters

…, C Hou, PD Acton, C Cardi, JR Saffer… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2003 - Soc Nuclear Med
There has been considerable interest in the development of PET radioligands that are useful
for imaging serotonin transporter (SERT) in the living human brain. For the last decade, 11 …

Comparison of diffuse optical tomography of human breast with whole‐body and breast‐only positron emission tomography

…, R Wiener, SM Srinivas, JR Saffer, R Freifelder… - Medical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
We acquire and compare three‐dimensional tomographic breast images of three females
with suspicious masses using diffuse optical tomography (DOT) and positron emission …

[PDF][PDF] Simultaneous SPECT studies of pre-and postsynaptic dopamine binding sites in baboons

…, G Patselas, M Mu, JR Saffer… - Journal of Nuclear …, 1999 - Soc Nuclear Med
Department ofRadiology, University ofPennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania management.
It is possible to achieve this by using 1231.. labeled compounds in two separate sessions…

Surgical probe design for a coincidence imaging system without a collimator

JR Saffer, HH Barrett, HB Barber… - Image and vision …, 1992 - Elsevier
Surgical probes used in nuclear medicine can be maneuvered close to a suspected tumor
site, thereby achieving higher resolution and sensitivity than external gamma cameras. …

Diffuse Optical Tomography and Positron Emission Tomography of Human Breast

…, K Lee, SM Srinivas, JR Saffer, R Freifelder… - Biomedical Topical …, 2006 - opg.optica.org
We have acquired images of the breasts of four females with suspicious masses using Diffuse
Optical Tomography (DOT) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET). The images are …

Accurate attenuation modeling of rebinned 3D PET data

…, S Matej, S Vandenberghe, JR Saffer… - IEEE Nuclear …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Rebinning is used in PET to reduce three-dimensional (3D) data to a set of stacked two-dimensional
(2D) slices that can be reconstructed using a conventional 2D algorithm. Rebinning …

Factors affecting non-uniform attenuation compensation for SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging

S Jung, JR Saffer, RJ Smith… - 1998 IEEE Nuclear …, 1998 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The purpose of this study was to evaluate factors affecting the quality of the measured attenuation
map and nonuniform attenuation compensation (AC) for SPECT myocardial perfusion …