Quantifying the radiation dosage to individual skeletal lesions treated with samarium-153-EDTMP

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2110-2115

  Van Rensburg, Ado J ^a,b   Alberts, Albert S ^a   Louw, Werner K A ^a  

^a STEVE BIKO ACADEMIC HOSPITAL   (South Africa)

^b Department of Radiation Oncology ^*  (South Africa)

Author keywords

Quantification; Radiation dosimetry; Samarium 153 EDTMP

Indexed keywords

LEXIDRONAM SAMARIUM SM 153;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BONE LESION; BONE METASTASIS; BONE PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOISOTOPE DISTRIBUTION; SCINTILLATION CAMERA;

AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BONE NEOPLASMS; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PAIN; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SAMARIUM; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0032407291     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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