SCHENONE , Daniela

In clinical practice, there is the need to optimize imaging usage in MM patients. Accordingly, the aim of this paper was to develop a simple computed tomography (CT) scoring method for MM, able to shorten and simplify the interpretation time with good intra- and inter-reader reliability. This method, named MSBDS (Myeloma Spine and Bone Damage...

In Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) spinal cord (SC) showed a moderate increase in FDG uptake with respect to healthy subjects. The main aim of our study is to integrate the information concerning the divergent behavior of SC with skeletal muscle metabolism improving the informative potential of 18F-fluoro-2-deoxy-glucose (FDG) PET/CT...

PURPOSE: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease leading to neuromuscular palsy and death. We propose a computational approach to [18F]-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET/CT images to analyze the structure and metabolic pattern of skeletal muscle in ALS and its relationship with disease aggressiveness. MATERIALS AND...