99mTc-ENS: A new radiopharmaceutical for aerosol lung scintigraphy. Comparison between different freeze-dried formulations

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1080-1083

  Calmanovici, Gabriela P ^a   Boccio, José R ^b   Lysionek, Alexis E ^b   Salgueiro, Maria J ^b   Hager, Alfredo ^b   De Paoli, Tomas ^b   Calcagno, Maria L ^b   Nicolini, Jorge ^b   Tarlati, Mercedes ^b   Caro, Ricardo A ^b   Zubillaga, Marcela B ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b NONE

Author keywords

99mTc labeled exogenous natural surfactant; Exogenous natural surfactant; Freeze drying; Pulmonary aerosol scintigraphy

Indexed keywords

SURFACTANT; TECHNETIUM 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; LUNG SURFACTANT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; TECHNETIUM;

AEROSOL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DRUG FORMULATION; FEMALE; FREEZE DRYING; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; NEBULIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; METABOLISM; QUALITY CONTROL; SCINTISCANNING; SPLEEN; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AEROSOLS; ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FREEZE DRYING; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; PULMONARY SURFACTANTS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPLEEN; TECHNETIUM;

EID: 0032587187     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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