Interobserver reproducibility in the interpretation of 99mTc-labelled white blood cell scintigraphic images

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1093-1099

  Tondeur, Marianne C ^a   Sand, Alain ^a   Ham, Hamphrey H ^a  

^a SAINT PIERRE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Concept; Education; Interobserver; Reproducibility; Scintigraphy; Sensitivity; White blood cell

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; COLLOID TC 99M; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M; INDIUM 111; MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; ISOTOPE LABELING; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; OSTEITIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTIGRAPHY; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPLEEN ABSCESS; STOMACH BYPASS; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ABDOMEN; AGED; BONE DISEASES, INFECTIOUS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FEMALE; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PHYSICIANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STAINING AND LABELING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 56749168915     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e328310897c     Document Type: Article

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