Fast and accurate quantitative determination of the lung shunt fraction in hepatic radioembolization.
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DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ab4e49
Abstract: Radioembolization treatment is preceded by a 99mTc-MAA safety procedure, which is used to estimate the lung shunt fraction (LSF). Normally, the LSF is estimated by using the geometric mean of planar scintigraphy (PS-GM). However, concern… read more here.
Keywords: radioembolization; lung shunt; shunt fraction; lung ... See more keywords