The maximum pixel counts taken over the tumor divided by those taken of a background region yielded a tumor-to-background ratio. The percentage of change 1 Nuclear Medicine Service, Memorial Sloanin the tumor-to-background ratio before and after chemotherapy, defined as the Kettering Cancer Center,
Use of99mTc-MIBI scintigraphy in the evaluation of the response to chemotherapy for osteosarcoma: comparison with201Tl scintigraphy and angiography
β Scribed by Shinji Miwa; Toshiharu Shirai; Junichi Taki; Hisashi Sumiya; Hideji Nishida; Katsuhiro Hayashi; Akihiko Takeuchi; Akishi Ooi; Hiroyuki Tsuchiya
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 258 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1341-9625
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