As useful to students and nuclear professionals as its popular predecessors, this fifth edition
provides the most up-to-date and accessible introduction to radiation detector materials …

Within the past decade, background parenchymal enhancement (BPE) and background
parenchymal uptake (BPU) have emerged as novel imaging-derived biomarkers in the …

The rising incidence of breast cancer worldwide has prompted many improvements to
current care. Routine nuclear medicine is a major contributor to a full gamut of clinical …

Current statistics show there are 3.5 million women in the United States living with breast
cancer today, and approximately 330,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. Of these …

Introduction Successful breast conserving cancer surgeries come along with tumor free
resection margins and account for cosmetic outcome. Positive margins increase the …

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths among women, accounting for
approximately 570,000 deaths worldwide in 2015. Over 1.5 million women (25% of all …

Introduction The nuclear medicine physician is a member of a team responsible for the safe
and correct implementation of radioactivity-based procedures. To ensure the consistent …

In the past years, peptide based radiopharmaceuticals have turned into favorable molecular
imaging agents for specific targeting of cancer. This is mainly because many tumors happen …

The usability of 99m Tc-spermine for human breast tumor imaging was evaluated. Mice
bearing MDA-MB-231 breast tumor were used for SPECT imaging and biodistribution study …

Breast cancer is the most common malignant tumor in women in developed countries as
well as in our country, leading to an important public health worldwide problem, with great …