Ventilation scintigraphy with lipophilic cationic compounds

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 987-993

  Bhatnagar, Aseem ^a   Sawroop, Krishan ^a   Chopra, Mahinder K ^a   Kumar, Neeraj ^a   Jaimini, Abhinav ^a   Bhatnagar, Anuj ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

High nebulization; High quality image; Lipophilic cations; Technetium 99m methoxyisobutylisonitrile; Ventilation lung imaging

Indexed keywords

CATION; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; NANOPARTICLE; PENTETATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; AEROSOL; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG PENETRATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LIPOPHILICITY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; NEBULIZATION; NEBULIZER; RADIOISOTOPE DISTRIBUTION;

ADULT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEBULIZERS AND VAPORIZERS; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; PULMONARY VENTILATION; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M PENTETATE; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI;

EID: 55149091978     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e32830fddfe     Document Type: Article

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