PET probes and oncological surgery: A productive new marriage for nuclear medicine?

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1530-1533

  Schillaci, Orazio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

CANCER; CANCER SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; NOTE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING;

HUMANS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MOLECULAR PROBE TECHNIQUES; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS;

EID: 34748918378     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-007-0482-6     Document Type: Note

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