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Takeshi MORISHITA, Yasuaki KAWAMURA, Toshinori MUTO, Junichi YAMAZAKI, ...
1988 Volume 37 Issue 4 Pages
197-202
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Left ventricular responses to handgrip exercise test in patients with ischemic heart disease were assessed by RI methods. We subdivided into three groups (A: ΔEF more than 5% increased, B: ΔEF -5%-+5% no change, C: ΔEF less than 5% reduced), left ventricular contractility (LVEF/LVET) and Tl
defect score changed significantly in global EF reduced group, moreover the usefulness of handgrip test was assured. This instrument is low cost, safety, small size, and available for wide ranged ages.
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Kazutami TORIZUMI, Hirofumi AIBATA, Masayuki YASUI, Akitaka UEYOSHI, E ...
1988 Volume 37 Issue 4 Pages
203-208
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The dementia patients with central nervous or nuro-cerebro vascular disorders seemed to be decreased serumMg
due to abnormalMg
uptake in diet.
An increment of PTH level was paralled with a rise of serumMg
and hypomagnesemic group was shown to have a lower PTH level in these patients.
Our results suggested that secondary hypoparathyroidism was likely to be induced by normo-calcemic hypomagnesemia.
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Tadashige FUJII, Hisakata KANAI, Jiro HIRAYAMA, Kenjiro HANDA, Shozo K ...
1988 Volume 37 Issue 4 Pages
209-216
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Using perfusion lung scintigram, motion of the regional pulmonary area and lung edge during ventilation was analyzed in 30 patients with various respiratory diseases.
Images at maximal inspiration (I) and expiration (E) were obtained after the intravenous injection of99mTC
macroaggregated albumin (222-370 MBq) using a scintillation camera coupling to a small digital computer. Radioactivity in each pixels (E and I) and number of pixels in the both lungs (AEand AI) were calculated from the image of E and I. Changes of the regional pulmonary radioactivity during ventilation were calculated according to an expression as (E-I) /I, and the image of (E-I) /I was obtained too.
The image of (E-I) /I consisted of positive and negative components. The image of positive (E-I) /I visualized the motion of the regional pulmonary area, and sum of positive (E-I) /I in the both lungs was correlated with vital capacity (r=0.83, p<0.001) .The image of negative (E-I) /I superimposed with the edges of the lung at maximal inspiration and expiration revealed the limits of the motion of the lung edge during ventilation.
These results suggest that this technique is useful to estimate the regional pulmonary ventilation and motion of the lung edge.
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Akira UEDONO, Shoichiro TANIGAWA
1988 Volume 37 Issue 4 Pages
217-220
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We report on the construction and operation of a monoenergetie slow positron beam apparatus in ultra-high vacuum. These slow positrons are used as a probe to study surfaces and defects below sub-surfaces. Positrons from a22Na
source are thermalized by a venetian-type vane consisting of well annealed tungsten foils with a thickness of 25.4 μm. The converter is floating at 100 V higher than extraction grid, which gives a small amount of energy to the positrons along the beam axis. A source chamber and a specimen chamber are placed at a distance of 4 m apart in order to reduce back ground radiation. A gate valve is installed between them in order to keep ultra-high vacuum conditions while changing specimens. Slow positrons from the converter are guided by nine separated magnetic coils of 100 G with a diameter of 700 mm. Acceleration of slow positrons is performed by applying a high voltage between 0.1-50 kV desired to the source chamber. An acceleration stage containing five lenses which are stueked with 200 MΩ resisters are installed in a linear part of the beam line. Characteristics of the apparatus are described and the measurements of the Doppler broadening profile of the positron annihilation radiation as a function of incident positron energy are shown.
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Hozumi IKEDA, Kunio HAMADA, Kazuhisa KOSAKAI, Masahiro OMURA, Yoshihir ...
1988 Volume 37 Issue 4 Pages
221-224
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The performance of a 160 keV slant hole collimator (160 keV SH) was compared with that of a 140 keV high resolution collimator (140 keV HR) for SPECT imaging of the head using99mTc.
The minimum radius of revolution was reduced from about 23 cm to 13 cm using 160 keV SH. Relative sensitivity of the 160 keV SH was 108% of that of the 140 keV HR. Compared with SPECT using 140 keV HR, 160 keV SH SPECT yielded approximately a 15% increase in resolution. The 160 keV SH SPECT images of phantom were superior in resolution and contrast to that of 140 keV HR SPECT. We concluded that high quality SPECT images of the head can be obtained from rotating gamma cameras equipped with slant hole collimators.
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Masatsugu SUZUKI
1988 Volume 37 Issue 4 Pages
225-228
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The efficacy of assay procedure for estimation of serum alpha fetoprotein (AFP) was examined on“Amerwell AFP”immunoradiometric assay (IRMA) using monoclonal AFP antibody. The condition of incubation was most satisfactory for 2 hours at 37°C. Coefficients of variance for intraassay and interassay were 5.1-10.0% and 8.4-9.9% respectively. Dilution test gave satisfactory results. The binding capacity of microplatewell tagged monoclonal AFP antibody with AFP antigen was satisfactory for assay reactions. This method showed a good correlation to the AFP RIA bead (Dinabot Co.) method. The normal range (reference value) was within the level of 5.0 IU/ml due to Hoffmann's method in the examination of 860 subjects.
Estimation of AFP with“Amerwell AFP”IRMA kit was a feasible routine method of clinical application for tumor marker.
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Chang-Kyu KIM, Riki SEKI, Nagao IKEDA
1988 Volume 37 Issue 4 Pages
229-230
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Hiroshi TOMINAGA, Otomaru SATOH, Masao KATOH, Jun-ichi KAWAMOTO
1988 Volume 37 Issue 4 Pages
231-242
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Masahiko HARATA, Shigeki MIZUNO
1988 Volume 37 Issue 4 Pages
243-253
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Kenichi MARUYAMA, Naotake MORIKAWA, Hiroyuki FUKUYAMA
1988 Volume 37 Issue 4 Pages
254-263
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1988 Volume 37 Issue 4 Pages
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