Microbial challenge tests on nonradioactive TiO 2-based 68Ge/ 68Ga generator columns

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 819-823

  Petrik, Milos ^a,f   Schuessele, Andrea ^d   Perkhofer, Susanne ^b,c   Lass Flörl, Cornelia ^b   Becker, Dirk ^e   Decristoforo, Clemens ^a  

^a Clinical Department of Nuclear Medicine   (Austria)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c University of Applied Sciences Tyrol   (Austria)

^d Eckert and Ziegler Eurotope GmbH   (Germany)

^e Eckert and Ziegler Radiopharma GmbH   (Germany)

^f PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

68Ge 68Ga generator; generator column eluate; microorganisms

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE; ENDOTOXIN; GALLIUM 68; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLOSTRIDIUM SPOROGENES; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS; ELUTION; FUNGAL STRAIN; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; INCUBATION TIME; MICROBIAL CHALLENGE TEST; MICROBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURVIVAL;

EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FUNGI; GALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; GERMANIUM; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIONUCLIDE GENERATORS;

EID: 84863438417     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e3283543323     Document Type: Article

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