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• The evolving role of structural and functional imaging in assessment of age-related changes in the body.

  Aging is an extremely complex, multifactorial, and inevitable process that varies in rate from person to person and that is not fully understood at it…

  Authors: Drew A Torigian, Abass Alavi

  Source: Seminars in nuclear medicine. 2007 Mar

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• Emerging role of FDG-PET/CT in assessing atherosclerosis in large arteries.

  Atherosclerosis is a dynamic inflammatory disorder. The biological composition and inflammatory state of an atherosclerotic plaque, rather than the de…

  Authors: Wengen Chen, Gonca G Bural, Drew A Torigian, Daniel J Rader, Abass Alavi

  Source: European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging. 2009 Jan

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• Functional imaging of inflammatory diseases using nuclear medicine techniques.

  Molecular imaging with positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is increasingly used to diagnose, cha…

  Authors: Sandip Basu, Hongming Zhuang, Drew A Torigian, Joshua Rosenbaum, Wengen Chen, Abass Alavi

  Source: Seminars in nuclear medicine. 2009 Mar

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• Positron emission tomography as a diagnostic tool in infection: present role and future possibilities.

  The past decade has witnessed the emergence of yet another promising application of (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) im…

  Authors: Sandip Basu, Timothy Chryssikos, Siamak Moghadam-Kia, Hongming Zhuang, Drew A Torigian, Abass Alavi

  Source: Seminars in nuclear medicine. 2009 Jan

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• Successful treatment of relapsed lymphomatoid granulomatosis with bexarotene.

  Lymphomatoid granulomatosis is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder involving the lungs, skin and other organs. Advanced-stage disease does not tend to…

  Authors: Sigrid E Berg, Lisa H Downs, Drew A Torigian, Elise A Chong, Donald E Tsai, Mariusz A Wasik, Stephen J Schuster

  Source: Cancer biology & therapy. 2008 Oct

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• Structural and functional imaging correlates for age-related changes in the brain.

  In recent years, investigators have made significant progress in documenting brain structure and function as it relates to aging by using positron emi…

  Authors: Paul C Tumeh, Abass Alavi, Mohamed Houseni, Antje Greenfield, Timothy Chryssikos, Andrew Newberg, Drew A Torigian, Gul Moonis

  Source: Seminars in nuclear medicine. 2007 Mar

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• FDG-PET is an effective imaging modality to detect and quantify age-related atherosclerosis in large arteries.

  PURPOSE: The main aim of this research was to determine the changes of FDG uptake in large arteries with aging as visualized by FDG-PET imaging. METHO…

  Authors: Gonca G Bural, Drew A Torigian, Wichana Chamroonrat, Mohamed Houseni, Wengen Chen, Sandip Basu, Rakesh Kumar, Abass Alavi

  Source: European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging. 2008 Mar

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• Determination of age-related changes in structure and function of skin, adipose tissue, and skeletal muscle with computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and positron emission tomography.

  In this article, we report quantitative preliminary data obtained from retrospective analysis of (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography…

  Authors: Natasha E Wehrli, Gonca Bural, Mohamed Houseni, Khaled Alkhawaldeh, Abass Alavi, Drew A Torigian

  Source: Seminars in nuclear medicine. 2007 May

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• Novel quantitative techniques for assessing regional and global function and structure based on modern imaging modalities: implications for normal variation, aging and diseased states.

  In this review, we describe the current approaches used for quantitative assessment of regional and global function with positron emission tomography …

  Authors: Sandip Basu, Habib Zaidi, Mohamed Houseni, Gonca Bural, Jay Udupa, Paul Acton, Drew A Torigian, Abass Alavi

  Source: Seminars in nuclear medicine. 2007 May

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• The aging of the heart and blood vessels: a consideration of anatomy and physiology in the era of computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and positron emission tomographic imaging methods with special consideration of atherogenesis.

  Physicians have long told their patients that the doctor's job is to help patients "get as old as they can." As physicians, we have been aided in this…

  Authors: Eli H Botvinick, Rodolfo Perini, Gonca Bural, Wengen Chen, Timothy Chryssikos, Mohamed Houseni, Miguel Hernandez-Pampaloni, Drew A Torigian, Abass Alavi

  Source: Seminars in nuclear medicine. 2007 Mar

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