Normal uptake of 18F-FDG in the testis: An assessment by PET/CT

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 405-410

  Kitajima, Kazuhiro ^a,b,d   Nakamoto, Yuji ^c   Senda, Michio ^b   Onishi, Yumiko ^b   Okizuka, Hiromi ^b   Sugimura, Kazuro ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

18F FDG; PET CT; Physiological uptake; Testis

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GLUCOSE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TESTIS; TESTIS SIZE; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; STANDARD;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD GLUCOSE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TESTIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34548718250     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12149-007-0041-z     Document Type: Article

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