Identifying active vascular microcalcification by 18F-sodium fluoride positron emission tomography

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Irkle, Agnese ^a   Vesey, Alex T ^b   Lewis, David Y ^a   Skepper, Jeremy N ^a   Bird, Joseph L E ^a   Dweck, Marc R ^b   Joshi, Francis R ^a   Gallagher, Ferdia A ^a   Warburton, Elizabeth A ^a   Bennett, Martin R ^a   Brindle, Kevin M ^a   Newby, David E ^b   Rudd, James H ^a   Davenport, Anthony P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD31 ANTIGEN; SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; SODIUM FLUORIDE F 18; FLUORINE; SODIUM FLUORIDE;

ADSORPTION; CALCIFICATION; CANCER; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TREATMENT; FLUORIDE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BINDING AFFINITY; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BINDING; DRUG MECHANISM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOACTIVITY; X RAY MICROANALYSIS; CAROTID ARTERY; CHEMISTRY; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

AGED; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERIES; FEMALE; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; HUMANS; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SODIUM FLUORIDE; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84936873830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8495     Document Type: Article

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