Thyroid protection before123I-ioflupane (DaTSCAN) imaging
β Scribed by Yvan Mouraeff; Karim Farid; Xavier Poullias; Ana Goncalves; Slavomir Petras; Nadine Caillat-Vigneron
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 60 KB
- Volume
- 38
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-6997
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The thyroids of forty patients were imaged using 2 mCi(74 MBq) 99mTc pertechnetate (99mTcO4) followed within one week by 2 mCi (74 MBq) 123I Iodide. The images obtained were evaluated by eight observers for 6 morphological criteria and assigned to 6 diagnostic categories with a confidence grading on