Use of 11F-fluorothymidine positron emission tomography in brain tumor

Neurological Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 657-664

  Kawai, Nobuyuki ^a   Kagawa, Masahiro ^a   Miyake, Keisuke ^a   Nishiyama, Yoshihiro ^a   Yamamoto, Yuka ^a   Shiraishi, Hirotoshi ^a   Ichikawa, Tomotsugu ^b   Tamiya, Takashi ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Cell proliferation; FLT ( 18F fluoro 3 deoxy 3 L fluoro thymidine); Glioma; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

3' FLUOROTHYMIDINE F 18; KI 67 ANTIGEN; METHIONINE; 2',3' DIDEOXYNUCLEOSIDE DERIVATIVE; 3' FLUOROTHYMIDINE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CANCER GRADING; CELL PROLIFERATION; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; LYMPHOMA; METASTASIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; BRAIN TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; SCINTISCANNING;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIDEOXYNUCLEOSIDES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS;

EID: 67749133679     PISSN: 03012603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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