Three-dimensional surface display of dynamic pulmonary xenon-133 SPECT in patients with obstructive lung disease

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 889-893

  Suga, Kazuyoshi ^a   Kume, Norihiko ^a   Nishigauchi, Kazuya ^a   Kawakami, Yasuhiko ^a   Kawamura, Takeo ^a   Matsumoto, Tsuneo ^a   Matsunaga, Naofumi ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lung ventilation; SPECT; Surface rendered imaging; Three dimensional imaging; Xenon 133 gas

Indexed keywords

XENON 133;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG CLEARANCE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; XENON RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 0031956805     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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