The time has come to standardize (123)I-MIBG heart-to-mediastinum ratios including planar and SPECT methods

Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2016 Feb;43(2):386-388. doi: 10.1007/s00259-015-3258-4. Epub 2015 Nov 23.

Authors

Kenichi Nakajima¹, Koichi Okuda², Shinro Matsuo³, Denis Agostini⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kanazawa University Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan. nakajima@med.kanazawa-u.ac.jp.
² Department of Physics, Kanazawa Medical University, Uchinada, Japan.
³ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kanazawa University Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan.
⁴ Department of Nuclear Medicine, CHU Côte de Nacre, Normandy University EA 4650, Caen, France.

PMID: 26592939
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-015-3258-4

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Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

3-Iodobenzylguanidine*
Female
Gamma Cameras*
Heart / diagnostic imaging*
Heart Failure / diagnostic imaging*
Humans
Male
Mediastinum / diagnostic imaging*
Organophosphorus Compounds*
Organotechnetium Compounds*
Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon / instrumentation*

Substances

Organophosphorus Compounds
Organotechnetium Compounds
3-Iodobenzylguanidine