Older Age Bipolar Disorder and Substance Use

Aug 25, 2017 by in GERIATRICS Comments Off on Older Age Bipolar Disorder and Substance Use

© Springer International Publishing AG 2017Susan W. Lehmann and Brent P. Forester (eds.)Bipolar Disorder in Older Age Patients10.1007/978-3-319-48912-4_5 5. Older Age Bipolar Disorder and Substance Use Chaya Bhuvaneswaran1  , Rita Hargrave2   and E. Sherwood Brown3   (1) 35 Morrill Street,…

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The Role of PET/CT in Prostate Cancer Management

Aug 19, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on The Role of PET/CT in Prostate Cancer Management

Fig. 5.1 A normal 18F-choline PET scan (MIP image). Physiological uptake of choline is present in the salivary glands, liver, spleen, kidneys, bowel and bladder with low-grade normal bone marrow…

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Epidemiology and Clinical Features

Aug 19, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on Epidemiology and Clinical Features

Fig. 1.1 Estimated age-standardised rates (World) per 100,000 [2] Fig. 1.2 Trends in incidence of prostate cancer in selected countries: age-standardised rate (W) per 100,000 [2] Fig. 1.3 The 20…

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Pathology of Prostate Cancer

Aug 19, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on Pathology of Prostate Cancer

Fig. 2.1 Immunohistochemistry demonstrates basal cells (stained brown with marker 34betaE12) in benign glands, while the surrounding malignant glands are negative 2.3 Immunohistochemistry The immunostains commonly used are p63 (nuclear…

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Management of Prostate Cancer

Aug 19, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on Management of Prostate Cancer

Low-risk prostate cancer All of T1 or T2a, Gleason < 7, PSA < 10 Intermediate-risk prostate cancer Between low- and high-risk groups High-risk prostate cancer Any of T3 or T4, Gleason > 7, PSA > 20 In general…

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OpenPET Enabling PET Imaging During Radiotherapy

Aug 19, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on OpenPET Enabling PET Imaging During Radiotherapy

Fig. 4.1 Shows the comparison between a conventional PET detector (a) and the depth-of-interaction (DOI) detector (b). The DOI detector eliminates the parallax error, caused by the thickness of the…

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Optical Imaging: How Far Can We Go

Aug 19, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on Optical Imaging: How Far Can We Go

Fig. 7.1 Immunohistochemistry (IHC) of murine testis. (a) Antibody-specific staining of a protein antigen, which is selectively present in male germ cells with maximal levels (dark-brown staining) at spermatogonia-spermatocyte stage,…

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Recent Developments with Large-Bore PET/CT

Aug 19, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on Recent Developments with Large-Bore PET/CT

Model name Company Patient port size [mm] PET detector ring FDA cleared PET CT Diameter [mm] [year] ECAT Accel CTI (Siemens) 562 N/A 824 2000 Discovery LS GE Healthcare 600…

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