Tumor quantitation and monitoring in whole-body planar technetium-99m- sestamibi imaging

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 356-361

  Van Kriekinge, Serge D ^b   Germano, Guido ^a   Forscher, Charles ^b   Rosen, Gerald ^b   Gupta, Pawan ^b   Waxman, Alan D ^b  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Planar scintigraph image registration; Tumor quantitation; Whole body image registration

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG UPTAKE; HUMAN; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; ISOTOPE LABELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

ALGORITHMS; ARM; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEG; NEOPLASMS; SOFTWARE; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI;

EID: 0030921832     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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