Does supplementation of contrast MR imaging with thallium-201 brain SPECT improve differentiation between benign and malignant ring-like contrast-enhanced cerebral lesions?

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 251-256

  Kita, Tamotsu ^a   Hayashi, Katsumi ^a   Yamamoto, Masayoshi ^a   Kawauchi, Toshio ^a   Sakata, Ikuko ^a   Iwasaki, Yoshie ^a   Kosuda, Shigeru ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

201Tl chloride; Brain SPECT; Intracranial lesion; Ring like contrast enhancement

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201; CONTRAST MEDIUM; THALLIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN LYMPHOMA; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION NECROSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TOXOPLASMOSIS; BRAIN; BRAIN TUMOR; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 35848967210     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12149-007-0026-y     Document Type: Article

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