Clinical usefulness of fusion of 131I SPECT and CT images in patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1905-1910

  Yamamoto, Yuka ^a   Nishiyama, Yoshihiro ^a   Monden, Toshihide ^a   Matsumura, Yoshitaka ^a   Satoh, Katashi ^a   Ohkawa, Motoomi ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

131I; CT; Fusion image; Thyroid carcinoma

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MARKER; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; MUSCLE METASTASIS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SKIN; THYROID CARCINOMA; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BONE TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INSTRUMENTATION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE TUMOR; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BONE NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 1542787394     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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