Contribution of 18F-sodium fluoride PET/CT to the study of the carotid atheroma calcification

Revista Espanola de Medicina Nuclear e Imagen Molecular

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 22-25

  Quirce, R ^a   Martinez Rodriguez I ^a   De Arcocha Torres, M ^a   Jimenez Bonilla J F ^a   Banzo, I ^a   Rebollo, M ^a   Revilla, M A ^a   Palacio, E ^a   Rubio Vassallo, A ^a   Ortega Nava, F ^a   Del Castillo Matos, R ^a   Carril, J M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

18F sodium fluoride PET CT; Atherosclerosis; Calcification; Carotid atheroma; Molecular imaging; Stroke

Indexed keywords

SODIUM FLUORIDE F 18; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORINE; SODIUM FLUORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CAROTID ATHEROMA CALCIFICATION; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA ISCHEMIA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; FEMALE; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SODIUM FLUORIDE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84871607383     PISSN: 2253654X     EISSN: 22538070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.remn.2012.08.003     Document Type: Article

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