The low hepatic toxicity per gray of 90Y glass microspheres is linked to their transport in the arterial tree favoring a nonuniform trapping as observed in posttherapy PET imaging

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 135-140

  Walrand, Stephan ^a   Hesse, Michel ^a   Chiesa, Carlo ^b   Lhommel, Renaud ^a   Jamar, Francois ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; Hepatic toxicity; Liver radioembolization; Microsphere transport modeling

Indexed keywords

GLASS; MICROSPHERE; YTTRIUM 90; YTTRIUM;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DOSIMETRY; EMBOLIC PARTICLE; HEPATIC ARTERY; IRRADIATION; LIVER STRUCTURE; LIVER TOXICITY; LIVER WEIGHT; PORTAL VEIN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SIMULATION; 90Y PET IMAGING; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; HEPATIC TOXICITY; HUMAN; LIVER; LIVER RADIOEMBOLIZATION; MICROSPHERE TRANSPORT MODELING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; SCINTISCANNING; VASCULARIZATION;

90Y PET IMAGING; DOSIMETRY; HEPATIC TOXICITY; LIVER RADIOEMBOLIZATION; MICROSPHERE TRANSPORT MODELING;

GLASS; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; LIVER; MICROSPHERES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; YTTRIUM RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 84894842085     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.113.126839     Document Type: Article

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