Evaluation of patients with head and neck cancer by means of 99mTc-glucarate

Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 229-232

  Gambini, Juan P ^a   Nuñez, Margarita ^a   Cabral, Pablo ^a   Lafferranderie, Martín ^a   Noble, Javier ^a   Corchs, Eduardo ^a   D'Albora, Ricardo ^a   Savio, Eduardo ^a   Delgado, Lucía ^a   Alonso, Omar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URUGUAY   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

99mTc glucarate; Head and neck tumors; Spect CT software fusion

Indexed keywords

GLUCARATE TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RELAPSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DRUG UPTAKE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LARYNX CANCER; LARYNX TUMOR; MALE; MAXILLA TUMOR; NASOPHARYNX TUMOR; OROPHARYNX CANCER; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TONSIL CANCER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; GLUCARIC ACID; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 73249117472     PISSN: 00914916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnmt.109.062927     Document Type: Article

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