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Editorial (Thematic Issue: Molecular Imaging in Dementia: From the State of the Art to the New Perspectives)
No full textThe Fukushima nuclear accident temporarily increased patients reluctance for nuclear medicine investigations.
No full textOnly mentioning the word "nuclear" already creates anxiety and distress. We attempted to assess the impact of the media hype about the Fukushima event on patients admitted in nuclear medicine units to undergo diagnostic investigations. The number of patients denying scintigraphic studies over half a year after the Fukushima accident was compared with the same period of the 2 previous years 2009 and 2010. Data were separately analyzed into thyroid vs. other organ scintigraphies. Physicians' referrals to nuclear medicine showed no decline. Patients undergoing various organ scintigraphies asked questions related to the accident but only few of them denied the investigation. Questioning and denial for nuclear medicine tests were more frequent in females as compared to males and especially in child-bearing females. Among patients referred in the initial post-event phase for thyroid function tests, more than 10% denied thyroid scintigraphy and 2.75% questioned this test. Again, questioning and denial was higher with females, especially in child-bearing age. In conclusion, this study showed that nuclear accidents and perhaps irresponsible media reports may affect behaviour of patients referred for nuclear medicine studies and in particular for thyroid scintigraphy even if these accidents had no radioactive effect to them
To what extent can artificial neural network support nuclear medicine?
No full textArtificial Neural Networks (ANN) are computer programs that emulate the operation
of a large number of processing units that mimic the fundamental mechanisms of
the biological activity of nervous cells as well as their connections and
interactions. As a human brain, an ANN has the ability to learn from the
experience of general relations between variables and thus ANN are particularly
suitable to capture the natural complexity of medical data. Today ANN are widely
used as a tool for computer aided diagnosis. This editorial discusses to what
extent ANN can support Nuclear Medicine
ITALIANO OLTRE I CONFINI: UNO SGUARDO SULLE VARIETÀ DEL REPERTORIO DEGLI EMIGRATI DI OGGI: A cura di Luisa Amenta e Roberta Ferroni
No full textITALIANO OLTRE I CONFINI: UNO SGUARDO SULLE VARIETÀ DEL REPERTORIO DEGLI EMIGRATI DI OGGI
A cura di Luisa Amenta e Roberta Ferroni.
Contributi di Luisa Amenta e Roberta Ferroni, Mariagrazia Palumbo, Barbara Bertoni, Elena Ballarin e Paolo Nitti, Luisa Revelli, Linda Badan e Emilie Lamote.ITALIANO OLTRE I CONFINI: UNO SGUARDO SULLE VARIETÀ DEL REPERTORIO DEGLI EMIGRATI DI OGGI
A cura di Luisa Amenta e Roberta Ferroni.
Contributi di Luisa Amenta e Roberta Ferroni, Mariagrazia Palumbo, Barbara Bertoni, Elena Ballarin e Paolo Nitti, Luisa Revelli, Linda Badan e Emilie Lamote
Radioidine therapy temporarily increases circulating endothelial cells and decreases endothelial progenitor cells
No full textRadiotherapy can cause vascular injury. No data on radioiodine therapy and vascular damage are available
18F-FDG uptake by arterial endothelial (EC), smooth muscle (SMC) and mononuclear cells (MC)-What are the consequences for atherosclerosis imaging?
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Essential variables for an automatic neuronal classifier in Alzheimer's disease and Age-Associated Memory Impairment.
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