Yttrium-90 time-of-flight PET/CT is superior to bremsstrahlung SPECT/CT for postradioembolization imaging of microsphere biodistribution

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Kao, Yung Hsiang ^a   Tan, Eik Hock ^a   Ng, Chee Eng ^a   Goh, Soon Whatt ^a  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

bremsstrahlung SPECT CT; internal pair production; microsphere biodistribution; yttrium 90 selective internal radiation therapy; Yttrium 90 time of flight PET CT

Indexed keywords

MICROSPHERE; YTTRIUM 90;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER RESECTION; MALE; RADIOEMBOLIZATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TIME OF FLIGHT COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICROSPHERES; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; YTTRIUM RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 80955123731     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: 15360229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e31821c9a11     Document Type: Article

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