CT-based quantitative SPECT for the radionuclide 201TI: Experimental validation and a standardized uptake value for brain tumour patients

Cancer Imaging

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 31-40

  Willowson, Kathy ^a,b   Bailey, Dale ^a,b,c   Schembri, Geoff ^b   Baldock, Clive ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brain; Single photon emission computed tomography; SPECT; Standardized uptake value; Thallium 201

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84857024172     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14707330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1102/1470-7330.2012.0005     Document Type: Article

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