Yttrium-90 internal pair production imaging using first generation PET/CT provides high-resolution images for qualitative diagnostic purposes

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 85, Issue 1015, 2012, Pages 1018-1019

  Kao, Yung Hsiang ^a   Tan, E H ^a   Lim, K Y ^a   Goh, S W ^a  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUTETIUM; RADIOACTIVE MICROSPHERE; YTTRIUM 90;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREMS RADIATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; X IRRADIATION;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MICROSPHERES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YTTRIUM;

EID: 84863646733     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/33524085     Document Type: Article

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