Feasibility of tumor imaging using L-3-[iodine-123]-Iodo-α-methyl- tyrosine in extracranial tumors

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1736-1743

  Jager, Pieter L ^a   Franssen, Eric J F ^a   Kool, Walter ^a   Szabó, Ben G ^a   Hoekstra, Harald J ^a   Groen, Harry J M ^a   De Vries, Elizabeth G E ^a   Van Imhoff, Gustaaf W ^a   Vaalburg, Willem ^a   Piers, D Albertus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Iodine 123 methyltyrosine; SPECT; Tumor imaging

Indexed keywords

3 IODOMETIROSINE I 123; AMINO ACID; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG METABOLISM; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPHOMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; TUMOR VOLUME; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; METHYLTYROSINES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031693866     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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