Deep-inspiration breath-hold PET/CT of lung cancer: Maximum standardized uptake value analysis of 108 patients

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1223-1231

  Kawano, Tsuyoshi ^a   Ohtake, Eiji ^a   Inoue, Tomio ^b  

^a KANAGAWA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deep inspiration breath hold; Lung cancer; Lutetium oxyorthosilicate; Maximum SUV; PET CT

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; LUTETIUM OXYORTHOSILICATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREATH HOLDING; BREATHING MECHANICS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SIZE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG LESION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; INHALATION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LUTETIUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SILICATES; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 48749133710     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.049296     Document Type: Article

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