How High Can the Standardized Uptake Value Be?

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 819-

  Hickeson, Marc ^a   Zhuang, Hongming ^a   Chacko, Thomas K ^a   Alavi, Abass ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorodeoxyglucose; Positron Emission Tomography; Standardized Uptake Value; Thyroid Cancer

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG UPTAKE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REFERENCE VALUE; THYROID CANCER; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; BLADDER TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMA; LUNG TUMOR; METABOLISM; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; SCINTISCANNING; STANDARD; THYROID TUMOR; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

CARCINOMA; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 10744231678     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-200211000-00020     Document Type: Article

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