Radboud university medical centre

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Immunology and Infection

Lymphocyte Isolation from Human Skin for Phenotypic Analysis and Ex Vivo Cell Culture

Xuehui He¹, Vivian L. de Oliveira¹, Romy Keijsers², Irma Joosten¹, Hans JPN Koenen¹

¹Laboratory of Medical Immunology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Radboud University Medical Centre, ²Department of Dermatology, Radboud University Medical Centre

We describe a protocol to efficiently isolate skin resident T cells from human skin biopsies. This protocol yields sufficient numbers of viable human skin resident lymphocytes for flow cytometric analysis and ex vivo culture.

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Management of Respiratory Motion Artefacts in ¹⁸F-fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography using an Amplitude-Based Optimal Respiratory Gating Algorithm

Willem Grootjans¹, Peter Kok², Jurrian Butter², Erik Aarntzen²

¹Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Centre, ²Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Radboud University Medical Centre

Amplitude-based optimal respiratory gating (ORG) effectively removes respiratory-induced motion blurring from clinical ¹⁸F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) images. Correction of FDG-PET images for these respiratory motion artefacts improves image quality, diagnostic and quantitative accuracy. Removal of respiratory motion artefacts is important for adequate clinical management of patients using PET.