Current research in nuclear medicine and molecular imaging in Italy: Highlights of the 10th National Congress of the Italian Association of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
Current research in nuclear medicine and molecular imaging in Italy: Highlights of the 10th National Congress of the Italian Association of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging(463 views) Cuocolo A
Q J Nucl Med Mol Im (ISSN: 1824-4785, 1824-4478, 1824-4785linking), 2011 Jun; 55(3): 280-300.
Keywords: Molecular Diagnostic Techniques, Molecular Imaging, Research, Atropine, Choline, Cyclophosphamide, Dopa, Doxorubicin, Fluorodeoxyglucose F 18, Pentetreotide In 111, Placebo, Prednisolone, Prostate Specific Antigen, Proteinase Inhibitor, Rituximab, Rna Directed Dna Polymerase Inhibitor, Tetrofosmin Tc 99m, Tracer, Vincristine, Anus Cancer, Binding Affinity, Cell Density, Clinical Protocol, Computer Assisted Tomography, Conference Paper, Coronary Artery Disease, Disease Course, Exercise, Glioma, Health Care Quality, Human, Infection, Inflammation, Intraductal Carcinoma, Large Cell Lymphoma, Medical Society, Neuroendocrine Tumor, Neuroimaging, Nonhuman, Nuclear Medicine, Osteolysis, Outcome Assessment, Positron Emission Tomography, Prognosis, Progression Free Survival, Prostate Cancer, Radiochemistry, Sensitivity And Specificity, Single Photon Emission Computer Tomography, Treatment Response, Tumor Biopsy, Animals, Cardiovascular Diseases, Italy, Models, Neoplasms, Nervous System Diseases, Positron-Emission Tomography, Radiopharmaceuticals, Societies, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon,
Affiliations: Department of Biomorphological and Functional Sciences, University Federico II, Naples, Italy
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Di Giuda, D., Barba, C., Bruno, I., Collarino, A., Caldarella, C., Stefanelli, A., Efficacy and predictive value of provoked ictal SPECT in intractable epilepsies (2011) Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 55 (SUPPL. 1), p. 9
Taralli, S., Calcagni, M.L., Galli, G., Anile, C., Niesen, A., Baum, R.P., Dynamic O-(2-[18F]fluoroethyl)-L-tyrosine (18F-FET) PET for brain tumours grading: Assessment of individual probability of malignancy (2011) Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 55 (SUPPL. 1), p. 6
Spadafora, M., Manganelli, F., Varrella, P., Peluso, G., Sauro, R., Di Lorenzo, E., Addition of atropine to submaximal exercise stress testing in patients evaluated for suspected ischemia with SPECT imaging: A randomized, placebo-controlled trial (2011) Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 55 (SUPPL. 1), p. 9
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Nappi, C., Daniele, S., Acampa, W., Storto, G., Pellegrino, T., Ricci, F., Incremental prognostic value of coronary flow reserve assessed with single-photon emission computed tomography (2011) Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 55 (SUPPL. 1), p. 37
Fantini, L., Pettinato, C., Guidalotti, P.L., Quarta, C., Nicolini, S., Caroli, P., Usefulness and limitations of 99mTc-DPD whole body bone scintigraphy in the etiologic diagnosis of amyloidotic cardiomyopathy (2011) Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 55 (SUPPL. 1), p. 160
Leccisotti, L., Lago, M., Perna, F., Leo, M., Calcagni, M.L., Casella, M., 18F-FDG PET-CT imaging of pacemaker or implantable cardioverter defibrillator infection (2011) Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 55 (SUPPL. 1), p. 105
Massollo, M., Spinella, G., Morbelli, S., Armonino, R., Riondato, M., Sarocchi, F., Glucose metabolism depicts the inflammatory activation of lymphocytes infiltrating abdominal aortic aneurysm: An "in vivo and ex-vivo" study (2011) Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 55 (SUPPL. 1), p. 20
Cason, E., Treglia, G., Cortelli, P., Liguori, R., Gabellini, A., Stefanelli, A., Role of 123I-metaiodobenzylguanidine scintigraphy in the early diagnosis of Lewy body diseases in patients with mild extrapyramidal symptoms: Our experience in 59 patients (2011) Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 55 (SUPPL. 1), p. 23
Liberatore, M., D Elia, P., Megna, V., Pala, A., Antibiotic treatment and chemotactic activity of granulocites in patients, affected by osteomyelitis, submitted to white blood cell scan (2011) Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 55 (SUPPL. 1), p. 153
Madeddu, G., Spanu, A., Chessa, F., Calia, G.M., Lovigu, C., Falchi, A., Body fat distribution changes and highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART): A clinical study in HIV patients (2011) Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 55 (SUPPL. 1), p. 161
Zucchetta, P., Burei, M., Cecchin, D., Murer, L., Rigamonti, W., Castagnetti, M., Bladder catheterization is not mandatory for 99mTc-MAG3 in primary non-refluxing megaureter in pediatric patients (2011) Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 55 (SUPPL. 1), p. 26
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Lopci, E., Derenzini, E., Burnelli, R., Cistaro, A., Guerra, L., Piccardo, A., FDG PET predictivity in paediatric HD (2011) Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 55 (SUPPL. 1), p. 20
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Ruzza, A., Bagni, O., Cristiano, A., Mosca, M.C., Antonetti, G., Checchinato, A., PET quantification of 90Y in Selective Internal Radiation Therapy (SIRT) for liver therapy: Preliminary phantom studies (2011) Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 55 (SUPPL. 1), p. 128
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Aprile, C., Saponaro, R., Buroni, F.E., Lodola, L., Raimondi, S., Cavenaghi, G., A novel cyclic synthetic peptide labeled with 99mTc with high affinity for amyloid fibrils (2011) Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 55 (SUPPL. 1), p. 8
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Di Grigoli, G., Zambelli, V., Scanziani, M., Valtorta, S., Amigoni, M., Belloli, S., Time course of metabolic activity and cellular infiltration in a murine model of acid-induced lung injury (2011) Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 55 (SUPPL. 1), p. 103
Belloli, S., Valtorta, S., LoDico, A., Zenga, F., Zara, G.P., Mauro, A., Characterization of a rat glioma model with MR, 18F-FAZA, and 18F-FDG-PET imaging (2011) Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 55 (SUPPL. 1), p. 66
Montali, G., Martini, D., Valentini, G., Panichelli, P., Vesprini, C., Castignani, L., ImmunoPET: Antigen specific small animal PET imaging of 124I ScFv anti-CEA (2011) Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 55 (SUPPL. 1), p. 5
Buschiazzo, A., Massollo, M., Cassanelli, C., Podestà, M., Morbelli, S., Marini, C., Trafficking and homing of systemically administered stem cells: The need for appropriate analysis tools of radionuclide images (2011) Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 55 (SUPPL. 1), p. 23
Vicidomini, C., Panico, M.R., Greco, A., Gargiulo, S., Larobina, M., Gramanzini, M., In vivo study of biodistribution and specific binding of 18F-DPA-714, a translocator protein-specific (TSPO) radioligand, in mice with microPET-CT (2011) Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 55 (SUPPL. 1), p. 127
Massaro, A., Cittadin, S., Milan, E., Tamiso, L., Pavan, L., Secchiero, C., 18F-DOPA PET/CT: Acquisition protocols in macacus monkeys and humans (2011) Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 55 (SUPPL. 1), p. 127
Greco, A., Ferro, A., Gargiulo, S., Larobina, M., Petretta, M.P., Esposito, G., Reproducibility of quantitative measurement of infarct size in mice with high-resolution PET/CT imaging (2011) Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 55 (SUPPL. 1), p. 127
Menga, M., Bell, M., Giunta, F., Pregno, P., Chiappella, A., Boccomini, C., Diffuse large b-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) treated with R-CHOP: Is it possible to predict patients' outcome by means of interim 18-FDG-PET-CT? (2011) Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 55 (SUPPL. 1), p. 82
Marzola, M. C., Grassetto, G., Rampin, L., Banti, E., Secchiero, C., Massaro, A., Diagnostic PET/CT algorithm using 18F-FDG and 18F-DOPA in recurrent medullary thyroid cancer (MTC): A prospective study on 34 patients (2011) Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 55 (SUPPL. 1), p. 4
Garganese, M. C., Toniolo, R. M., Lembo, A., Masi, G., Chiapparelli, S., Devito, R., Utility of three-phase bone scintigraphy in diagnosis of osteoid osteoma in children. Report of 51 paediatric patients treated by radio-frequency ablation (RFA) (2011) Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 55 (SUPPL. 1), p. 24
Current research in nuclear medicine and molecular imaging in Italy: Highlights of the 10th National Congress of the Italian Association of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
The 10th National Congress of the Italian Association of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (AIMN) took place in Rimini on March 18-21, 2011 under the chairmanship of Professor Stefano Fanti.The program was of excellent quality and put a further step for the settlement of the standardized AIMN congress structure. A large industrial exhibition demonstrated the latest technological innovations and developments within the field. The congress was a great success with more than 1100 total participants and more than 360 abstracts received. Of these, 40 abstracts were accepted for oral and 285 for poster presentations. The original investigations presented were related to different areas of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, with particular focus on advances in instrumentation and data processing, progress in radiochemistry and pharmacy, novel diagnostics and therapeutics, and new insights in well established areas of clinical application, such as oncology, cardiology, neurology, psychiatry, endocrinology, paediatrics, and infection and inflammation. Noteworthy, several presentations at this congress, focusing on quantitative interpretation of the imaging data and on pragmatic endpoints, such as adverse outcomes, identified when nuclear medicine procedures achieved clinical effectiveness for patient care and patient management and further demonstrated that nuclear medicine plays a crucial role in the contemporary medical scenario. This highlights lecture is only a brief summary of the large amount of data presented and discussed, which can be found in much greater detail in the congress abstract book, published as volume 55, supplement 1 of the Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging in April 2011.
Current research in nuclear medicine and molecular imaging in Italy: Highlights of the 10th National Congress of the Italian Association of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
Current research in nuclear medicine and molecular imaging in Italy: Highlights of the 10th National Congress of the Italian Association of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging