Quantitative analysis of scatter- and attenuation-compensated dynamic single-photon emission tomography for functional hepatic imaging with a receptor-binding radiopharmaceutical

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 59-67

  Ichihara, Takashi ^a   Maeda, Hisato ^b   Yamakado, Kouichirou ^c   Motomura, Nobutoku ^a   Matsumura, Kaname ^c   Takeda, Kan ^c   Nakagawa, Tsuyoshi ^c  

^a TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Effective hepatic blood flow; Hepatic blood pool; Rutland method; Single photon emission tomographic quantification; Technetium 99m diethylene triamine penta acetic acid galactosyl human serum albumin

Indexed keywords

ASIALOGLYCOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; PENTETATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BLOOD VOLUME; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER FUNCTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHANTOM; RADIATION SCATTERING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TECHNETIUM TC 99M AGGREGATED ALBUMIN; TECHNETIUM TC 99M PENTETATE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030903158     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01728310     Document Type: Article

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