68Ga-Radiopharmaceuticals for PET imaging of infection and inflammation

Recent Results in Cancer Research

Volumn 194, Issue , 2013, Pages 189-219

  Kumar, Vijay ^a,b   Boddeti, Dilip K ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORIDE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CITRIC ACID; DEOXYGLUCOSE; FLUCONAZOLE; GALLIUM 67; GALLIUM 68; GLUCOSAMINE; GLUCOSE DERIVATIVE; TECHNETIUM 99M; TRANSFERRIN;

ABSCESS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CELL LABELING; CELL TRANSPORT; CELLULITIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISKITIS; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG HALF LIFE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISOTOPE LABELING; LEUKOCYTE; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; OSTEOMYELITIS; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIOCHEMISTRY; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

EID: 84867091430     PISSN: 00800015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-27994-2_11     Document Type: Article

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