Sentinel node imaging of laryngeal cancer using a portable gamma camera with CdTe semiconductor detectors

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 440-443

  Tanaka, Chikako ^a   Fujii, Hirofumi ^a,b   Shiotani, Akihiro ^a   Kitagawa, Yuko ^a   Nakamura, Kayoko ^a   Kubo, Atsushi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Intraoperative imaging; Laryngeal cancer; Semiconductor detectors; Sentinel node

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; PHYTATE TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COLLOID; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNX CANCER; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MALE; OPERATING ROOM; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SEMICONDUCTOR; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PHYTIC ACID; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SEMICONDUCTORS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TELLURIUM; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 19544377841     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rlu.0000163371.46584.db     Document Type: Article

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