Renal 99Tcm-dmsa spet and planar imaging: Are they really the same?

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 556-561

  Rodriguez, J L ^a   Perera, A ^a   Fraxedas, R ^b   Reyes, L ^b   Hernandez, A ^a   Solano, M E ^a  

^a Centre for Clinical Research   (Cuba)

^b Institute of Nephrology   (Cuba)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUCCIMER TC 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; SUCCIMER; TECHNETIUM COMPLEX;

ACUTE PYELONEPHRITIS; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY SLICE; KIDNEY TOMOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; KIDNEY; PYELONEPHRITIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; THEORETICAL MODEL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PYELONEPHRITIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUCCIMER; TECHNETIUM TC 99M DIMERCAPTOSUCCINIC ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0030611243     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00006231-199706000-00010     Document Type: Article

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