Nuclear Medicine Technology: Inflammation and Infection Imaging

Journal of Radiology Nursing

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 77-85

  Truluck, Christina A ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FANOLESOMAB TC 99M; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GALLIUM CITRATE GA 67; GRANULOSCINT; HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M; LEUKOCYTE IN 111; NETROSPEC; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; SULESOMAB TC 99M; TECHNETIUM 99M; TECHNETIUM SULFUR COLLOID TC 99M; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; APPENDICITIS; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BONE INFECTION; CELLULITIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISKITIS; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG EXCRETION; DRUG HALF LIFE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; LUNG INFECTION; MYOSITIS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; OSTEOMYELITIS; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; SACROILIITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 34548295742     PISSN: 15460843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jradnu.2007.04.004     Document Type: Article

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