SPECT/CT in Imaging Foot and Ankle Pathology-The Demise of Other Coregistration Techniques

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 41-51

  Mohan, Hosahalli K ^a   Gnanasegaran, Gopinath ^a   Vijayanathan, Sanjay ^a   Fogelman, Ignac ^a  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ACHILLES TENDONITIS; ANKLE; ANKLE ARTHROGRAPHY; ARTHRITIS; ARTHRODESIS; BONE INFECTION; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BURSITIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEBRIDEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; FOOT; FOOT PAIN; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; INFECTION POSTARTHRODESIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; OSTEOCHONDRITIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; PATHOLOGY; PLANTAR FASCIITIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROPHYLAXIS; PSEUDARTHROSIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS FRACTURE; TALAR OSTEOCHONDRAL DEFECT; TARSAL BONE; TARSAL COALITION; TENDINITIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WOUND INFECTION; X RAY;

ANKLE; FOOT DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70549104904     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2009.08.004     Document Type: Review

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