Growth factors and their relationship to neoplastic and paraneoplastic disease.

Published in European Journal of Internal Medicine

Growth factors are extracellular signaling molecules that act in an autocrine and paracrine fashion to regulate growth, proliferation, differentiation, and survival of cells. Dysregulation of the growth factor networks is intimately related to the molecular pathogenesis of neoplastic and paraneoplastic disease. Increasing knowledge of the molecular...

High-resolution ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT for assessing disease activity in Rheumatoid and Psoriatic Arthritis: findings...

Published in British Journal of Radiology

Regularization design in penalized maximum-likelihood image reconstruction for lesion detection in 3D PET.

Published in Physics in Medicine and Biology

Detecting cancerous lesions is a major clinical application in emission tomography. In previous work, we have studied penalized maximum-likelihood (PML) image reconstruction for the detection task and proposed a method to design a shift-invariant quadratic penalty function to maximize detectability of a lesion at a known location in a two dimension...

Multivessel peripheral revascularization for acute stroke intervention: successful M2 bifurcation stenting and the growi...

Published in Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

A comprehensive endovascular skill set is desirable and key to successful intervention in the patient with complex cardiovascular disease. Acute stroke intervention is the next frontier for the endovascular specialist. We report a case of acute stroke intervention in a patient with severe peripheral vascular disease performed by interventional card...

Pretransplant detection of anti-endothelial cell antibodies could predict renal allograft outcome.

Published in Experimental and Clinical Transplantation

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a real risk factor for stroke.

Published in Scottish Medical Journal

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a common and complex heterogeneous cardiovascular entity. Its relationship to ischaemic stroke and atrial fibrillation is under-recognized and consequently, many patients who should be on oral anticoagulation for stroke prevention go untreated.

Crystal identification in positron emission tomography using nonrigid registration to a Fourier-based template.

Published in Physics in Medicine and Biology

Modern positron emission tomography (PET) detectors are typically made from 2D modular arrays of scintillation crystals. Their characteristic flood field response (or flood histogram) must be segmented in order to correctly determine the crystal of annihilation photon interaction in the system. Crystal identification information thus generated is a...

Dosimetry and adequacy of CT-based attenuation correction for pediatric PET: phantom study.

Published in Radiology

Registration-based Bone Morphometry for Shape Analysis of the Bones of the Human Wrist.

Published in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Left main coronary artery dissection detected by intravascular ultrasound following angiographically successful percutan...

Published in The Journal of invasive cardiology