Assessment of technetium-99m technegas scintigraphy for ventilatory impairment in pulmonary emphysema: Comparison of planar and SPECT images

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 109-113

  Satoh, Katashi ^a   Tanabe, Masatada ^a   Takahashi, Kazue ^a   Kobayashi, Takuya ^a   Nishiyama, Yoshihiro ^a   Yamamoto, Yuka ^a   Honjo, Naomi ^a   Sasaki, Mayumi ^a   Ohkawa, Motoomi ^a   Fujita, Jiro ^a   Okada, Hiroki ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Planar images; Pulmonary empbysema; SPECT images; Technegas; Ventilation study

Indexed keywords

PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M; TECHNEGAS; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPHYSEMA; HUMAN; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030814432     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03164818     Document Type: Article

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