Quantifying lung shunting during planning for radio-embolization

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 13, 2011, Pages

  Willowson, Kathy ^a   Bailey, Dale L ^a,b   Baldock, Clive ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED DOSE; AVERAGE DIFFERENCE; GOLD STANDARDS; INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURES; INTRAVENOUS INJECTIONS; LIVER CANCERS; LUNG TISSUE; MACRO-AGGREGATED ALBUMINS; ONE STOP; QUANTITATIVE VALUES; SPECT/CT;

TISSUE;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ALBUMINOID; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; MACRO AGGREGATES OF ALBUMIN; MICROSPHERE;

ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALBUMINS; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HUMANS; LUNG; MICROSPHERES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79960372416     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/13/N01     Document Type: Article

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