Usefulness of dual-head coincidence gamma camera with thick NaI crystals for nuclear oncology: Comparison with dedicated PET camera and conventional gamma camera with thin NaI crystals

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 141-148

  Inoue, Tomio ^a   Oriuchi, Noboru ^a   Koyama, Keiko ^a   Ichikawa, Akihiro ^a   Tomiyoshi, Katsumi ^a   Sato, Noriko ^a   Matsubara, Kunio ^a   Suzuki, Hideki ^b   Aoki, Jun ^a   Endo, Keigo ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GUNMA PREFECTURAL COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coincidence gamma camera; FDG; Malignant tumor; PET; SPECT

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; SODIUM IODIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; ONCOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION CAMERA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM IODIDE; TECHNETIUM TC 99M MEDRONATE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0034982216     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02988605     Document Type: Article

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