Less commonly used and emerging clinical applications of SPECT-CT in benign and malignant disease

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 808-818

  Yap, Ki S ^a   Patel, Chirag N ^a   Chowdhury, Fahmid U ^a   Scarsbrook, Andrew F ^a  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

hepatic iminodiacetic acid scintigraphy; hybrid SPECT CT; radioimmunoscintigraphy; red blood cell scintigraphy; ventilation perfusion scintigraphy

Indexed keywords

CAPROMAB PENDETIDE IN 111; DIGLYCINE DERIVATIVE TC 99M; HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M; IOFLUPANE I 123; MACROSALB TC 99M; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; METIROSINE; PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M; THALLIUM 201;

BILE DUCT LEAKAGE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATOBILIARY DISEASE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; REVIEW; SCINTIGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPLEEN INJURY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; BRAIN DISEASES; ERYTHROCYTES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PITUITARY DISEASES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84863470064     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e328355b6b8     Document Type: Review

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