Negative correlation between therapeutic success in radioiodine therapy and TcTUs: Are TcTUs-adapted dose concepts the only possible answer?

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1165-1168

  Gotthardt, Martin ^a   Nowack, Miriam ^a   Béhé, Martin P ^a   Schipper, Meike L ^a   Schlieck, Anja ^a   Höffken, Helmut ^a   Behr, Thomas M ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Autonomous volume; Disseminated thyroid autonomy; Radioiodine therapy; TcTUs

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131; TECHNETIUM; THYROTROPIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CALCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG UPTAKE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PUBLICATION; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; RELIABILITY; THYROID NODULE;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; TECHNETIUM; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0041735211     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-003-1226-x     Document Type: Article

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