Noninvasive detection of tumor hypoxia using the 2-nitroimidazole [18F]EF1

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 327-336

  Evans, Sydney M ^a   Kachur, Alexander V ^b   Shiue, Chyng Yann ^b   Hustinx, Roland ^b   Jenkins, W Timothy ^b   Shive, Grace G ^b   Karp, Joel S ^b   Alavi, Abass ^b   Lord, Edith M ^b   Dolbier Jr , William R ^b   Koch, Cameron J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

18F; EF1; EF3; Glioma; Hepatoma; Hypoxia; Imaging; PET; Rat; Tumor

Indexed keywords

2 NITROIMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; FLUORINE 18;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; GLIOMA; HYPOXEMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY; RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL HYPOXIA; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; GLIOMA; LIVER NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NITROIMIDAZOLES; RATS; RATS, INBRED BUF; RATS, INBRED F344; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0033954168     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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