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Our purpose was to investigate any potential effect of neck flexion on measurement of spinal bone mineral density (BMD) through further reduction of spinal lordosis and whether it is necessary to apply a head positioner, in addition to a leg positioner, during dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry. Methods Fifty-nine patients with no significant history of spinal disorders were recruited. A bone densitometry scan of the spine was obtained for all patients using a standard leg positioner in the supine position. Then, another scan of the spine was conducted using a small subnuchal cushion to flex the neck and, thus, straighten and minimize the lumbar lordosis. Parameters including the area, bone mineral content, BMD, and T and z scores for each lumbar vertebra (L1-L4) and for the total spine were extracted from the 2 scans and compared. Results The mean age of the patients was 55.53 y (±11.86 y); 53 (89.83%) were female and 6 (10.17%) male. A statistically significant difference was found between corresponding values for area, BMD in L4, and total spine. The percentage change from a scan without a cushion to one with a cushion was 1.20% for L4 and 0.58% for the total spine. The percentage BMD change was -0.64% for L4 and -0.34% for the total spine. A change in diagnosis-from normal to osteopenia-occurred for only 1 patient. Y-27632 Conclusion Use of a head positioner to flex the neck and thus minimize lumbar lordosis in dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry does not significantly affect the diagnosis or densitometric measurements from a clinical standpoint.Small-bowel obstruction is a fairly common cause of abdominal pain. Differentiating between true duodenal obstruction and pseudo obstruction is important given differing treatment strategies. Here, we present augmentation of a hepatobiliary scan with a small amount of oral liquids and delayed imaging to differentiate between these two entities.We report our PET/MRI experience from a pilot study that compared the diagnostic performance of 18F-FDG PET/MRI versus PET/CT in staging of cervical cancer. Methods Six adults with newly diagnosed cervical cancer underwent a single 18F-FDG injection with a dual-imaging protocol standard-of-care PET/CT followed by research PET/MRI. The diagnostic interpretation and SUVmax for the 2 modalities were compared. Results Both modalities detected all primary tumors (median size, 3.9 cm) and all 4 metastases present in 2 of the 6 patients (median size, 0.9 cm). PET/MRI provided greater diagnostic confidence than PET/CT and upstaged the disease in 4 patients. On the basis of the imaging findings alone, the additional information from PET/MRI would have led to a change in clinical management in 3 of 6 patients. The primary lesion showed a median SUV of 12.8 on PET/CT and 18.2 on PET/MRI (P = 0.03). SUVs, however, correlated strongly between the 2 modalities (ρ = 0.96, P less then 0.001). Conclusion Our pilot study supports the notion that PET/MRI has the potential to impact clinical decisions and treatment strategies in women with cervical cancer. Further studies are, however, warranted to define the value that PET/MRI adds to PET/CT.A pilot study was performed to determine whether the raw data from routinely obtained upright and supine myocardial perfusion scan (MPS) imaging could be used as an opportunity to screen for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). We hypothesized that abnormal respiratory motion seen only on supine imaging (not upright imaging) corresponds with OSA. MPS supine-only respiratory motion was compared with known OSA diagnoses and with risk factors known to be associated with OSA. Methods We reviewed 154 consecutive MPS studies from patients at our institution, including both exercise and chemical stress testing. All examinations were obtained because there was clinical suspicion of myocardial ischemia. We used the MPS panogram to assess for respiratory motion on supine stress or upright rest or stress imaging. We obtained the age, sex, body mass index, hypertensive history, and continuous positive airway pressure or OSA diagnosis history. Results We compared the patients who had supine, stress-only respiratory motion with the remaining patients, assessing their OSA risk factors and known OSA diagnoses. In total, 65 patients (42.2%) had 3 or more OSA risk factors and 26 patients (16.9%) had a known OSA diagnosis. A similar percentage of patients with abnormal supine-only respiratory motion and patients with 3 or more OSA risk factors had a known OSA diagnosis, 9 (16.7%) and 14 (21.5%), respectively. Conclusion We found a similar prevalence of known OSA diagnoses in patients with abnormal supine-only respiratory motion on MPS studies and patients with 3 or more OSA risk factors. The pilot study suggests that assessment of motion on MPS studies may provide an opportunity to also screen for OSA.Our purpose was to develop a fully automatic method to deal with the presence of high levels of noise interfering with quantitative analysis of fast, dynamic mercaptoacetyltriglycine renogram images. Methods A method based on Legendre polynomials to fit and filter time-activity curves was proposed. The method was applied to a renal database that contains Monte Carlo (MC)-simulated studies and real adult patient data. Clinically relevant parameters such as relative function, time to maximum uptake (Tmax), and half-emptying time (T1/2) were obtained with the proposed method, the 1-2-1 filter (F121) method recommended in the 2018 guidelines of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine, and a state-of-the-art commercial software program (Hermes) currently used in routine nuclear medicine. Results The root mean squared error between reference time-activity curves and the same curves with Poisson noise added was about 2 times lower for the Legendre method than for F121. The left relative function for MC and patient data was statistically equivalent for Hermes, Legendre, and F121 (P less then 0.001). For MC studies, the Legendre technique performed better that the Hermes method regarding the known values of Tmax (P less then 0.05), and the T1/2 determination was significantly improved (P less then 0.05). For patient data, the Legendre and F121 methods were less influenced by noise in the data than the Hermes method, particularly for T1/2. Conclusion In dynamic nuclear medicine imaging, Legendre polynomials appear to be a promising, fully automatic noise-removal tool that is routinely applicable, accurate, and robust.
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