Dynamic PET with FDG in patients with unresectable aggressive fibromatosis: Regression-based parametric images and correlation to the FDG kinetics based on a 2-tissue compartment model

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 943-948

  Dimitrakopoulou Strauss, Antonia ^a   Hohenberger, Peter ^b   Pan, Leyun ^a   Kasper, Bernd ^b   Roumia, Safwan ^a   Strauss, Ludwig G ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

18F FDG; aggressive fibromatosis; dynamic imaging; parametric imaging

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FIBROMATOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; UNRESECTABLE AGGRESSIVE FIBROMATOSIS;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; FIBROMATOSIS, AGGRESSIVE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84866328883     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: 15360229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e31825b1da4     Document Type: Article

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