Is spect/ct with a hybrid camera useful to improve scintigraphic imaging interpretation?

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 705-710

  Schillaci, Orazio ^a   Danieli, Roberta ^a   Manni, Carlo ^a   Simonetti, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

CT; Gamma camera; Hybrid imaging system; Imaging fusion; SPECT

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 123; GALLIUM 67; GRANULOCYTE ANTIBODY; HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M; MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; NANOCOLL TC 99M; PENTETREOTIDE IN 111; RADIOISOTOPE; TECHNETIUM 99M; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M; TRACER;

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CAMERA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYBRID COMPUTER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; SCINTIGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

BRAIN DISEASES; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 3142588794     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mnm.0000130240.83949.54     Document Type: Article

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