Diagnostic usefulness of an amino acid tracer, α-[N-methyl-(11)C]-methylaminoisobutyric acid ((11)C-MeAIB), in the PET diagnosis of chest malignancies

OBJECTIVES: Although positron emission tomography (PET) using [(18)F]-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose ((18)F-FDG) is established as one of the first-choice imaging modalities in the diagnosis of chest malignancies, there are several problems to solve in clinical practice, such as false positive uptake in i...

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Autores principales: Nishii, Ryuichi, Higashi, Tatsuya, Kagawa, Shinya, Kishibe, Yoshihiko, Takahashi, Masaaki, Yamauchi, Hiroshi, Motoyama, Hideki, Kawakami, Kenzo, Nakaoku, Takashi, Nohara, Jun, Okamura, Misato, Watanabe, Toshiki, Nakatani, Koichi, Nagamachi, Shigeki, Tamura, Shozo, Kawai, Keiichi, Kobayashi, Masato
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Japan 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3830191/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23824782
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12149-013-0750-4

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3830191/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23824782
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12149-013-0750-4

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