Ventilation/perfusion lung scintigraphy: What is still needed? A review considering technetium-99m-labeled macro-aggregates of albumin

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-16

  Zöphel, Klaus ^a   Bacher Stier, Claudia ^b   Pinkert, Jörg ^c   Kropp, Joachim ^d  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b BAYER PHARMA AG   (Germany)

^c BAYER AG   (Germany)

^d CARL THIEM KLINIKUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lung perfusion scintigraphy; Lung resection; Pulmonary embolism; SPECT; Tc 99m MAA

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; D DIMER; KRYPTON 81M; MACROSALB TC 99M; MICROSPHERE TC 99M; TECHNEGAS; TECHNETIUM 99M; XENON 133;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTERIAL GAS; CANCER SURGERY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; ISOTOPE LABELING; LUNG; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M AGGREGATED ALBUMIN; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 60349123970     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12149-008-0187-3     Document Type: Review

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