Mi-Jin Yoon

UNLABELLED: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ability of (18)F-FDG PET to characterize adrenal lesions in patients with proven or suspected cancers. METHODS: A retrospective analysis was performed on 50 adrenal lesions in 41 patients, whose PET scans were done to evaluate the primary or metastatic disease. CT had shown 50 adrenal lesions in 41 patients and MRI had revealed 13 lesions in 10 patients. There were 34 patients with proven malignancy (28 lung cancer, 3 thyroid cancer, 2 co

Vascular FDG uptake is present in 50% of the patients examined for this study, with an increased prevalence in older patients. This vascular uptake might be explained by smooth muscle metabolism in the media, subendothelial smooth muscle proliferation from senescence, and the presence of macrophages within the atherosclerotic plaque. The relative contribution of these sources needs further investigation.

UNLABELLED: This study was performed to compare (18)F-FDG PET with CT for the evaluation of primary tumors and lymph node metastases in gastric cancer. METHODS: Eighty-one patients (28 women and 53 men; mean age, 56.6 y; age range; 32-82 y) who had undergone radical (n = 74) or palliative (n = 7) gastrectomy and lymph node dissection for the management of gastric cancer were included. Preoperative (18)F-FDG PET and CT were reviewed retrospectively for primary tumors of the stomach and lymph node

The patterns of (18)F-FDG and (11)C-acetate uptake seemed to complement each other in both human HCC and HCC cell lines. Fatty acid synthase expression was seen in cells with high (18)F-FDG or (11)C-acetate uptake, suggesting glucose- or acetate-dependent lipid synthesis. Acetyl CoA synthetase appears to be important in (11)C-acetate uptake and acetate-dependent lipid synthesis for the growth of cancer cells with a low-glycolysis phenotype. Inhibition of acetyl CoA synthetase in these cells may

Aerobic glycolysis has been the most important hypothesis in cancer metabolism. It seems to be related to increased bioenergetic and biosynthetic needs in rapidly proliferating cancer cells. To this end, F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), a glucose analog, became widely popular for the detection of malignancies combined with positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT). Although the potential roles of FDG PET/CT in primary tumor detection are not fully established, it seems to have a li

Reactive astrogliosis is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, a clinically validated neuroimaging probe to visualize the reactive astrogliosis is yet to be discovered. Here, we show that PET imaging with 11C-acetate and 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) functionally visualizes the reactive astrocyte-mediated neuronal hypometabolism in the brains with neuroinflammation and AD. To investigate the alterations of acetate and glucose metabolism in the diseased brains and their impact on th

Metal-insulator-semiconductor structures with conjugated polymer ethyl-hexyl substituted polyfluorene (PF2̱6) as the active semiconductor layer, Al2O3 as the insulating oxide layer, and p+-Si as the metal layer have been characterized by means of capacitance-voltage (C-V) and conductance-voltage methods. The negative shift of the flat-band voltage with increasing frequency arises from positive interface charges in the PF2̱6∕Al2O3 layer. From C-V measurements the unintentional doping density is e

UNLABELLED: Physiologic (18)F-FDG uptake in the stomach can often cause false-positive results and lowers the usefulness of (18)F-FDG PET in evaluating the remnant stomach. We assessed the role of gastric distension to see whether it is beneficial for the differentiation of recurrent tumors from physiologic (18)F-FDG uptake in the remnant stomach. METHODS: Thirty patients (22 men and 8 women; age range, 27-80 y; mean age, 58.3 y) with a history of subtotal gastrectomy for gastric cancer underwen

CONTEXT: A significant number of papillary thyroid microcarcinomas (PTMCs), despite excellent prognosis, show aggressive features such as extrathyroidal extension (EE) and lymph node metastasis (LNM) that may not always be detected preoperatively or intraoperatively. The relapse rate appears also substantial. OBJECTIVE: To assess the value of [(18)F]fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake in PTMC as a potential risk factor for preoperative risk stratification. METHODS: This retrospective study included

BACKGROUND: F]FDG). METHODS: F]FDG PET datasets from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative and Korean Brain Aging Study for the Early diagnosis and prediction of Alzheimer's disease for model development. Moreover, we used an independent dataset from another hospital. A 2.5-D deep learning architecture was constructed using 291 submodules and three axes images as the input. We conducted the voxel-wise analysis to assess the regions with substantial differences in glucose metabolism bet