Two-phase [11C]l-methionine PET in childhood brain tumors

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 163-170

  O'Tuama, Lorcan A ^a   Phillips, Peter C ^a   Strauss, Lewis C ^a   Carson, Benjamin C ^a   Uno, Yoshihiro ^a   Smith, Quentin R ^b   Dannals, Robert F ^a   Wilson, Alan A ^a   Ravert, Hayden T ^a   Loats, Sandra ^c   Loats, Harry A ^a,c   LaFrance, Norman D ^a   Wagner Jr , Henry N ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^c Loats Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; METHIONINE; PHENYLALANINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CHILD; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION INJURY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; INFANT; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; METHODOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; METHIONINE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PHENYLALANINE; RADIATION INJURIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0025194229     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0887-8994(90)90057-8     Document Type: Article

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