Normal values of [99mTc]pertechnetate uptake and excretion fraction by major salivary glands

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 395-403

  Anjos, Dalton A ^a   Etchebehere, Elba C S C ^a   Santos, Allan O ^a   Lima, Mariana C L ^a   Ramos, Celso D ^a   Paula, Raquel B ^a   Camargo, Edwaldo E ^a  

^a Division of Nuclear Medicine   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Excretion fraction; Quantitive analysis; Salivary glands

Indexed keywords

PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEMON JUICE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAROTID GLAND; SALIVARY GLAND; STANDARDIZATION; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID GLAND; THYROID SCINTISCANNING; XEROSTOMIA; BRAZIL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SECRETION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STANDARD;

ADULT; BRAZIL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SALIVARY GLANDS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SODIUM PERTECHNETATE TC 99M;

EID: 33746867152     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mnm.0000202864.52046.b1     Document Type: Article

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