Assessment of pulmonary lesions with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron imaging using coincidence mode gamma cameras

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 574-578

  Weber, Wolfgang ^b   Young, Carter ^b   Abdel Dayem, Hussein M ^b   Sfakianakis, George ^b   Weir, G John ^b   Swaney, Charles M ^b   Gates, Mark ^b   Stokkel, Marcel P ^b   Parker, Anthony ^b   Hines, Horace ^b   Khanvali, Behrouz ^b   Liebig, John R ^b   Leung, Ann N ^b   Sollitto, Richard ^b   Caputo, Gary ^b   Wagner Jr , Henry N ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

18F fluorodeoxyglucose; Dual detector coincidence imaging; Solitary pulmonary lesions

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0032930912     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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