Pulmonary function-morphologic relationships assessed by SPECT-CT fusion images

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 298-310

  Suga, Kazuyoshi ^a  

^a St Hill Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Pulmonary perfusion; Pulmonary ventilation; Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT); SPECT CT fusion images

Indexed keywords

PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; BREATH HOLDING; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEPATOPULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG INFARCTION; LUNG PERFUSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; PULMONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VASOCONSTRICTION;

HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 84862640448     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: 18646433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12149-012-0576-5     Document Type: Review

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