Increasing the radiochemical purity of 99mtc sestamibi commercial preparations results in improved sensitivity of dual-phase planar parathyroid scintigraphy

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1093-1098

  Karam, Maroun ^a   Dansereau, Raymond N ^a   Dolce, Charles J ^a   Feustel, Paul J ^a   Robinson, Lawrence W ^a  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Parathyroid scintigraphy; Radiochemical purity; Sestamibi

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; TRACER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; HYPOTHESIS; IMAGING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARATHYROID SCINTISCANNING; RADIOCHEMISTRY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID GLAND;

ADULT; AGED; DRUG INDUSTRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARATHYROID DISEASES; PARATHYROID NEOPLASMS; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 27944474418     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200512000-00008     Document Type: Article

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