Endoprobe: A system for radionuclide-guided endoscopy

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3306-3313

  Raylman, Raymond R ^a   Srinivasan, Amarnath ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta particles; Endoscopy; Esophagus; Intraoperative probes; Radiation detectors

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; ENDOSCOPY; PHANTOMS; POSITRONS; PROBES; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOISOTOPES; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; TRACKING (POSITION); USER INTERFACES;

18-F-FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; BETA PARTICLES; ESOPHAGUS; INTRA-OPERATIVE; MINIMALLY-INVASIVE TECHNIQUE; POSITION TRACKING SYSTEM; SOLID STATE DETECTORS; VISUAL IDENTIFICATION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

CARBON 11; IODINE 131; RADIOISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RESEARCH; COMPUTER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; MOLECULAR PROBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLID STATE;

EID: 11244349949     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1819780     Document Type: Article

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