Localization of intestinal bleeding using a fusion of Tc-99m-labeled RBC SPECT and X-ray CT

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 488-489

  Yama, Naoya ^a   Ezoe, Eiri ^a   Kimura, Yasutoshi ^a   Mukaiya, Mitsuhiro ^b   Fujimori, Kenji ^a   Kurimoto, Yoshihiko ^a   Koito, Kazumitsu ^a   Hirata, Koichi ^a   Hareyama, Masato ^a   Asai, Yasufumi ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Social Welfare Service Hakodate Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fusion; Gastrointestinal bleeding; Scintigraphy; SPECT

Indexed keywords

PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M; SCOPOLAMINE BUTYL BROMIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL LABELING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ERYTHROCYTE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTRADUCTAL PAPILLARY MUCINOUS TUMOR; ISOTOPE LABELING; MALE; PANCREAS RESECTION; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ERYTHROCYTES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TECHNETIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 21444459242     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rlu.0000167516.18157.2c     Document Type: Article

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