Radiolabeled thymidine: A sensitive tracer for early tumor response and recurrence after irradiation

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1702-1705

  Senekowitsch Schmidtke, Reingard ^a   Ruth, Florian ^a   Bernatz, Sabine ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell proliferation; Radiolabeled thymidine; Tracer for tumor recurrence; Tracer for tumor response

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; THYMIDINE; TRACER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CANCER GRAFT; COLON CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IRRADIATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; THYMIDINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032888302     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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