Intracranial tumors after radiation therapy: Role of 99mTc- tetrofosmin SPECT/CT with a hybrid camera

Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 229-235

  Filippi, Luca ^a   Santoni, Riccardo ^a   Nicolì, Pompeo ^a   Danieli, Roberta ^a   Schillaci, Orazio ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b Center of Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies and Innovative Instrumentations (NAST)   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOSTRUCTURES AND BIOSYSTEMS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain tumors; Hybrid camera; SPECT CT; Tetrofosmin

Indexed keywords

TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CALCULATION; CAMERA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MALE; ORBIT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION NECROSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL TIME; TEMPORAL LOBE; TUMOR VOLUME;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 66249098857     PISSN: 10849785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cbr.2008.0548     Document Type: Article

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