High-Energy (511-keV) Imaging with the Scintillation Camera

Radiographics

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1183-1194

  Patton, James A ^a   Sandler, Martin P ^a   Ohana, Israel ^b   Weinfeld, Zeev ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Elscint Nuclear Medicine Division R and D Dept   (Israel)

Author keywords

Brain, emission CT (ECT), 10.1217; Emission CT (ECT), technology; Fluorine; Heart, emission CT (ECT), 50.1217; Neoplasms, emission CT (ECT); Radionuclide imaging, technology

Indexed keywords

DEOXYGLUCOSE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FLUORINE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; HEART; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; RADIOLOGY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

BRAIN; DEOXYGLUCOSE; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GAMMA CAMERAS; HEART; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0030226310     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiographics.16.5.8888397     Document Type: Article

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