Prospective evaluation of technetium-99m ECD SPET in mild traumatic brain injury for the prediction of sustained neuropsychological sequels

Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 243-250

  Mehrazin, Masoud ^a   Nezameddini Kachooei, Seyed Akbar ^a   Fallahi, Babak ^b   Derakhshan, Mohammad Kamran ^c   Beiki, Davood ^b   Ghodsi, Seyed Mohammad ^a   Assadi, Majid ^d   Pooyafard, Farzaneh ^b   Eftekhari, Mohammad ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c ARAK UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d BUSHEHR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Memory deficit; SPET; Technetium 99m ECD; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M; CYSTEINE; TECHNETIUM; TECHNETIUM COMPLEX;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; MILD TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN INJURY;

BRAIN INJURIES; CYSTEINE; HUMANS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TECHNETIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 83255162673     PISSN: 11081430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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