Initial application of respiratory-gated tl spect in pulmonary malignant tumours

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 303-313

  Kawakami, Yasuhiko ^a   Suga, Kazuyoshi ^a   Yamashita, Tomio ^a   Iwanaga, Hideyuki ^a   Zaki, Mohammed ^a   Matsunaga, Naofumi ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); Lung tumours; Respiratory gating; Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT); Thallium 201

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201; THALLIUM CHLORIDE TL 201;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATHING MECHANICS; BREATHING PATTERN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CANCER; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPH NODE; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RELIABILITY; RESPIRATORY GATED SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; THALLIUM;

EID: 16244401449     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200504000-00002     Document Type: Article

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