Quantitative analysis of technegas SPECT: Evaluation of regional severity of emphysema

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 590-595

  Nagao, Michinobu ^a   Murase, Kenya ^b   Ichiki, Taku ^b   Sakai, Shinya ^b   Yasuhara, Yoshifumi ^b   Ikezoe, Junpei ^b  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Fractal analysis; Pulmonary emphysema; SPECT; Technegas; Ventilation study

Indexed keywords

TECHNEGAS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMPHYSEMA; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG VENTILATION; LUNG VOLUME; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; SCINTIGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VITAL CAPACITY;

FEMALE; FRACTALS; GRAPHITE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SODIUM PERTECHNETATE TC 99M; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0034110907     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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