The role of thallium-201 uptake and retention in intracranial tumors after radiotherapy

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 223-226

  Lorberboym, Mordechai ^a,b   Mandell, Lynda R ^a   Mosesson, Roger E ^a   Germano, Isabelle ^a   Lou, Wendy ^a   DaCosta, Maria ^a   Linzer, Debra G ^a   Machac, Josef ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

intracranial tumors; radiation therapy; retention index; thallium 201

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHORIOCARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOSURGERY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOSURGERY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031039038     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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