Acceleration of hepatobiliary excretion by lemon juice on 99mTc-tetrofosmin cardiac SPECT

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 859-864

  Cherng, Shiou Chi ^a   Chen, Yeong H ^b   Lee, Meei S ^a   Yang, Shih P ^a   Huang, Wen S ^c   Cheng, Cheng Y ^c  

^a Departments of Nuclear Medicine   (Taiwan)

^b Family Medicine   (Taiwan)

^c TRI SERVICE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Extra cardiac radioactivity; Heart to liver ratio; Lemon juice

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M; WATER;

ADULT; AGED; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BILIARY EXCRETION; CALCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DILUTION; DRINKING; DRUG EXCRETION; DRUG METABOLISM; HEART; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART TO LIVER RATIO; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LEMON JUICE; LIVER; LIVER CLEARANCE; LIVER PARENCHYMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILK; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REST; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; AGED; ARTIFACTS; BEVERAGES; BILIARY TRACT; CITRUS; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PLANT EXTRACTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33749519802     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mnm.0000243377.57001.33     Document Type: Article

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