The utility of spect in determining the relationship between radiation dose and salivary gland dysfunction after radiotherapy

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 225-231

  Van Acker, F ^a   Flamen, P ^a   Lambin, P ^a   Maes, Annelies ^a   Kutcher, G J ^a   Weltens, C ^a   Hermans, R ^a   Baetens, J ^a   Dupont, P ^a   Rijnders, A ^a   Maes, Alex ^a   Van Den Bogaert, W ^a   Mortelmans, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Radiation dose response curves; Salivary gland scintigraphy; SPECT

Indexed keywords

CARBACHOL; PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; MALE; RADIATION DOSE; SALIVARY GLAND DISEASE; SALIVARY GLAND SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAROTID GLAND; RADIOMETRY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SALIVARY GLAND DISEASES; SALIVARY GLANDS; SALIVATION; SODIUM PERTECHNETATE TC 99M; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0035103135     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200102000-00015     Document Type: Review

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