Enhanced accuracy in differential diagnosis of radiation necrosis by positron emission tomography-magnetic resonance imaging coregistration: Technical case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 232-234

  Thiel, Alexander ^a   Pietrzyk, Uwe ^a   Sturm, Volker ^a   Herholz, Karl ^a   Hövels, Moritz ^a   Schröder, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Glioma; Positron emission tomography; Positron emission tomography magnetic resonance imaging coregistration; Radiation necrosis; Stereotactic biopsy; 11C methionine

Indexed keywords

CARBON 11; METHIONINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION NECROSIS; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

EID: 0033986301     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/neurosurgery/46.1.232     Document Type: Article

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