SUV: From silly useless value to smart uptake value

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 173-175

  Visser, Eric P ^a   Boerman, Otto C ^a   Oyen, Wim J G ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG UPTAKE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TUMOR VOLUME;

FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS;

EID: 75749152069     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.109.068411     Document Type: Short Survey

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