Metabolic assessment of intracranial tuberculomas using 11C-methionine and 18F-FDG PET/CT

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 408-414

  D'Souza, Maria Mathew ^a   Sharma, Rajnish ^b   Jaimini, Abhinav ^b   Panwar, Puja ^b   Bansal, Abhishek ^b   Tripathi, Madhavi ^b   Varshney, Raunak ^b   Pandey, Santosh ^b   Mondal, Anupam ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

11 C METHIONINE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOISOTOPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAY MATTER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL TUBERCULOMA; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN DISEASES; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; METHIONINE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TUBERCULOMA, INTRACRANIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858283057     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e32834f9b14     Document Type: Article

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