Brain perfusion SPECT study with99mTc-bicisate: Clinical pitfalls and improved diagnostic accuracy with a combination of linearization and scatter-attenuation correction

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 123-129

  Kado, Hirotsugu ^a   Iida, Hidehiro ^b   Kimura, Hirohiko ^a   Ogawa, Toshihide ^b   Narita, Yuichiro ^b   Hatazawa, Jun ^b   Tsuchida, Tatsuro ^a   Yonekura, Yoshiharu ^a   Itoh, Harumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^b Akita Research Institute of Brain   (Japan)

Author keywords

99mTc bicisate (ECD) SPECT; CBF PET; Linearization; Scatter attenuation correction

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; BRAIN; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYSTEINE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0034988891     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02988602     Document Type: Article

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