Usefulness of SPECT/CT fusion in the verification of lesions detected in somatostatin receptor scintigraphy and in the evaluation of therapy efficiency in patients with gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors

Polish Journal of Radiology

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 29-33

  Chrzan, Robert ^a   Sowa Staszczak, Anna ^b   Tomaszuk, Monika ^b   Urbanik, Andrzej ^a   Buziak Bereza, Monika ^b   Lenda Tracz, Wioletta ^b   Głowa, Bogusław ^b   Hubalewska Dydejczyk, Alicja ^b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

CT; Fusion; GEP NET; SPECT

Indexed keywords

SOMATOSTATIN DERIVATIVE; SOMATOSTATIN RECEPTOR; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; ISOTOPE LABELING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PATIENT MONITORING; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 74749093981     PISSN: 1733134X     EISSN: 18990967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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