Outlining the body contours with scattered photons in lymphoscintigraphy for sentinel nodes

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 401-404

  Fujii, H ^a   Yamashita, H ^a   Nakahara, T ^a   Ikeda, T ^a   Kitagawa, Y ^a   Iwasaki, R ^a   Nakamura, K ^a   Sato, M ^a   Hashimoto, J ^a   Kubo, A ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

99mTc tin colloid; Compton scattering; Lymphoscintigraphy; Scattered photon; Sentinel node

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM TIN COLLOID TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MALE; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; BODY CONSTITUTION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; TIN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0033661790     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02988706     Document Type: Article

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