99mTc white-cell imaging in inflammatory bowel disease: A comparison of planar versus SPECT

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 591-596

  Hillel, Philip George ^a   Lorenz, Eleanor ^a   Metherall, Peter ^a   Tindale, Wendy Belinda ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

inflammatory bowel disease; SPECT; technetium 99m labelled white cell scintigraphy

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; TECHNETIUM COMPLEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONSENSUS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SCINTISCANNING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958710676     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e328345b2fd     Document Type: Article

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