Brown fat at PET/CT: Correlation with patient characteristics

Radiology

Volumn 263, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 836-842

  Cronin, Carmel G ^a   Prakash, Priyanka ^a   Daniels, Gilbert H ^a   Boland, Giles W ^a   Kalra, Mannudeep K ^a   Halpern, Elkan F ^a   Palmer, Edwin L ^a   Blake, Michael A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST CANCER; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CANCER STAGING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMA; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BARIUM SULFATE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IOPAMIDOL; MALE; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84862502324     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12100683     Document Type: Article

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