Pinhole versus parallel-hole collimators for parathyroid imaging: An intraindividual comparison

Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 189-194

  Tomas, Maria B ^a   Pugliese, Paul V ^a   Tronco, Gene G ^a   Love, Charito ^a   Palestro, Christopher J ^a   Nichols, Kenneth J ^a  

^a Northwell Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Collimators; Image processing; Lesion detection; Primary hyperparathyroidism; Scintigraphy

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLLIMATOR; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; ORGAN WEIGHT; PARALLEL HOLE COLLIMATOR; PARATHYROID SCINTISCANNING; PINHOLE COLLIMATOR; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; RADIOLOGIST;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARATHYROID NEOPLASMS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 57449088422     PISSN: 00914916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnmt.108.055640     Document Type: Article

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