SPECT/CT with a hybrid camera: A new imaging modality for the functional anatomical mapping of infections

Expert Review of Medical Devices

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 699-703

  Filippi, Luca ^a   Schillaci, Orazio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

67Ga scan; Hybrid SPECT CT; Infection; Inflammation; Labeled leukocytes

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM 67;

ARTICLE; CAMERA; CELL LABELING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GRAFT INFECTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFECTION; LEUKOCYTE; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OSTEOMYELITIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION;

FEMALE; GALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; HUMANS; INFECTION; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33845883779     PISSN: 17434440     EISSN: 17452422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/17434440.3.6.699     Document Type: Article

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