Imaging of mild traumatic brain injury using 57Co and 99mTc HMPAO SPECT as compared to other diagnostic procedures

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2003, Pages

  Audenaert, Kurt ^a   Jansen, Hugo M L ^a,b,c   Otte, Andreas ^a   Peremans, Kathelijne ^a   Vervaet, Myriam ^a   Crombez, Roger ^b   De Ridder, Leo ^a,b   Van Heeringen, Cees ^a   Thirot, Joel ^d   Dierckx, Rudi A ^a   Korf, Jaap ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b St Luke Hospital   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Cobalt; Functional imaging; SPECT; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

COBALT 57; HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; TECHNETIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0142153156     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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