The importance of scatter correction for the assessment of lung shunting prior to yttrium-90 radioembolization therapy

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 628-634

  O'Doherty, Jim ^a   Scuffham, James ^a   Hinton, Paul ^a  

^a ROYAL SURREY COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

lung shunt; microspheres; scatter correction

Indexed keywords

MACROSALB TC 99M; MICROSPHERE; YTTRIUM 90;

ARTICLE; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; LUNG SHUNTING; PHANTOM; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRUNK;

ARTIFACTS; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HUMANS; LUNG; MICROSPHERES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SCATTERING, RADIATION; VENTILATION-PERFUSION RATIO; YTTRIUM RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 79958766330     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e3283463255     Document Type: Article

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