(n.) Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a fondling; a darling; often, a favorite child.
(n.) A slight fit of peevishness or fretfulness.
(a.) Petted; indulged; admired; cherished; as, a pet child; a pet lamb; a pet theory.
(v. t.) To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge; as, she was petted and spoiled.
(v. i.) To be a pet.
Example Sentences:
(1) In cases with unilateral hypoperfusion, the percentage of the activity in the lesion to that in the contralateral normal cortex on the early SPECT was correlated well with that on CBF measured by PET (r = 0.870, p less than 0.001).
(2) However, localizing a functional region with PET has been severely limited by the poor resolving properties of PET devices.
(3) The PET studies suggest dysfunction of the prefrontal cortex as a result of damage to the lentiform nuclei.
(4) If the PET measurement is commenced prior to arteriovenous equilibrium, significant errors occur in calculated CBV.
(5) Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET) are now being used to improve the information available from radioisotopic imaging of patients with cancer.
(6) The muscarinic receptor agonist carbachol had no significant effects on [3H]PEt and [3H]IP formation in nontransfected HEK cells.
(7) Appropriate corrections for atrophy should be employed if current PET scanners are to accurately measure actual brain tissue metabolism in various pathologic states.
(8) Using a 1-stage random-digit dial telephone survey, we estimated the number of pet dogs and cats and cancer case ascertainment in the principal catchment area of an animal tumor registry in Indiana, the Purdue Comparative Oncology Program (PCOP).
(9) Such information could be most useful for in vivo receptor visualization studies using positron emission tomography (PET) scanning.
(10) Half the adolescents completed the child maltreatment instrument first, while the rest completed the pet maltreatment instrument.
(11) In this study, PET images were obtained using [18F]-labeled fluorodeoxyglucose, a marker for glucose metabolism.
(12) The global black market in animal and plants, sold as food, traditional medicines and exotic pets, is worth billions and sees an estimated 350 million specimens traded every year.
(13) The distribution of 1-11C-acetoacetic acid after injection into adult Wistar rats and cats was investigated by PET.
(14) If we start letting movie stars – even though they’ve been the sexiest man alive twice – to come into our nation (with pets), then why don’t we just break the laws for everybody?” Joyce said at the time.
(15) We have developed a method that allows two sets of regional cerebral metabolic rates of glucose (rCMRglc) to be obtained in a single extended procedure using positron emission tomography (PET) and [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG).
(16) Metabolic PET studies also give insight into pathophysiologic mechanisms of epilepsy.
(17) In view of the number of PET studies involving low count rate acquisitions, there has been increasing interest recently in the development of positron cameras capable of fully three-dimensional acquisition and reconstruction.
(18) We performed dynamic positron emission tomographic (PET) studies of glucose utilization, using (18F) 2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG), in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) and healthy age-matched controls, to evaluate blood-brain-barrier glucose transport and glucose utilization rates in the disease.
(19) We used a 11C-glucose method for positron emission tomography (PET) while estimating cerebral glucose metabolism during human sleep with polysomnography (PSG).
(20) His mother is Denise Welch, late of Corrie and Loose Women, and his father his Tim Healy, who was briefly famous 30 years ago for his role in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
Spet
Definition:
(v. t.) To spit; to throw out.
(n.) Spittle.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the administration of approximately 37 MBq (26-44 MBq) 201Tl, 5 min acquisition time was possible for SPET imaging, which provided good image quality in all patients.
(2) The cerebral perfusion as visualized from SPET was compared to cerebral angiographies, which showed unilateral filling of intracranial vessels in seven patients.
(3) For planar scanning and SPET without scatter correction there was an overestimate of activity in the source of 290% and 40% respectively.
(4) Single photon emission tomography (SPET) of the calves was also performed in five controls and five patients with PVD.
(5) This technique is easy to apply as an adjunct to SPET and may be helpful in the quantitative evaluation of brain perfusion in routine clinical studies.
(6) The SPET studies with 123I-Iomazenil were carried out 5 min and 2 h after injection.
(7) In 4 out of 6 patients with electroencephalogram (EEG) abnormalities on admittance, SPET revealed at least 2 focal lesions.
(8) Thus, SPET assessment of 99mTc-MIBI uptake tends to underestimate the perfusion contrast between areas with normal and areas with low coronary vasodilatory reserve when compared to PET.
(9) A series of 30 consecutive exercise and redistribution 201Tl SPET studies were centered and reoriented by two operators twice with this method, and twice manually.
(10) In an attempt to improve detection of macroscopically invisible tumour spread, intraoperative scintimetry (IOSM) with a hand-held gamma-probe was performed in addition to SPET 24-30 and 41-48 h after injection of the technetium-99m carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA MoA) on 12 patients with colorectal carcinoma and 3 patients with different neoplastic and inflammatory diseases.
(11) It may be a useful agent for assessment of myocardial viability by single photon emission tomography (SPET) imaging.
(12) The three techniques allowing the noninvasive study of cardiac metabolism, namely magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPET), all use external detection with stable or radioactive isotopes.
(13) It is hoped that once the scientific basis of a physiopathological study is established using PET, diagnostic information might be provided by the more readily available SPET technology.
(14) Two SPET studies (early and late) were carried out within 45 min after intravenous administration of 200 MBq 123I-IPPA at peak sub-maximal exercise.
(15) The patients were injected with approximately 925 MBq (25 mCi) of 99mTc-LL2 Fab' (1 mg), and planar and single photon emission tomography (SPET) studies were performed at 3-4 h post injection and at 24 h. There was no evidence of thyroid or stomach activity up to 24 h. Uniform splenic uptake was seen in all patients.
(16) SPET improvement demonstrated myocardial salvage earlier than wall motion studies.
(17) Sensitivity of CT compared with SPET became increasingly better in patients with older infarcts (1-18 days).
(18) A metabolic marker for SPET studies is still missing.
(19) Ten patients had focal flow abnormalities with 99mTc-HMPAO SPET.
(20) The activity and the volume of the spheres were calculated from the SPET images and compared with known activities.