Comparison of FDG PET and positron coincidence detection imaging using a dual-head gamma camera with 5/8-inch Nal(TI) crystals in patients with suspected body malignancies

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 379-387

  Boren Jr , Edwin L ^a   Delbeke, Dominique ^a   Patton, James A ^a   Sandler, Martin P ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Emission computed tomography; Fluorine; Neoplasms

Indexed keywords

FLUORINE 18; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; SODIUM IODIDE; THALLIUM;

ABDOMINAL TUMOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER; CANCER SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLLIMATOR; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; THORAX TUMOR; WHOLE BODY TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SODIUM IODIDE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0032916327     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002590050401     Document Type: Article

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