Imaging and PET - PET/CT imaging

Journal de Radiologie

Volumn 89, Issue 3 C2, 2008, Pages 438-448

  Von Schulthess, Gustav K ^a   Hany, Thomas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

FDG; Functional imaging; Malignant tumor; Metabolism; Oncology; PET CT

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ABDOMINAL CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER THERAPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISTANT METASTASIS; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CARCINOMA; LYMPHOMA; MELANOMA; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTATE CANCER; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

EID: 45249105491     PISSN: 02210363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0221-0363(08)89019-1     Document Type: Review

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