Clinical significance of MRI/18F-FDG PET fusion imaging of the spinal cord in patients with cervical compressive myelopathy

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1528-1537

  Uchida, Kenzo ^a   Nakajima, Hideaki ^a   Okazawa, Hidehiko ^a   Kimura, Hirohiko ^a   Kudo, Takashi ^b   Watanabe, Shuji ^a   Yoshida, Ai ^a   Baba, Hisatoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

18F Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET); Cervical myelopathy; Fusion imaging; MRI; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION;

EID: 84868204041     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: 16197089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-012-2192-y     Document Type: Article

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