Academic Radiology
Volume 14, Issue 7 , Pages 830-838 , July 2007

Coregistered Ventilation and Perfusion SPECT Using Krypton-81m and Tc-99m−Labeled Macroaggregated Albumin With Multislice CT: Utility for Prediction of Postoperative Lung Function in Non−Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients

  • Yoshiharu Ohno, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, 7-5-2 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0017, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Y.O.
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  • Hisanobu Koyama, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, 7-5-2 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0017, Japan
    • ,
  • Daisuke Takenaka, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, 7-5-2 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0017, Japan
    • ,
  • Munenobu Nogami, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, 7-5-2 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0017, Japan
    • ,
  • Yoshikazu Kotani, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0017, Japan
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  • Yoshihiro Nishimura, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0017, Japan
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  • Masahiro Yoshimura, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiovascular, Thoracic and Pediatric Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0017, Japan.
    • ,
  • Takeshi Yoshikawa, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, 7-5-2 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0017, Japan
    • Division of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0017, Japan
    • ,
  • Kazuro Sugimura, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, 7-5-2 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0017, Japan

Received 11 January 2006 ,Accepted 23 March 2007.

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 This work was supported by the Knowledge Cluster Initiative from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

PII: S1076-6332(07)00178-X

doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2007.03.013

Academic Radiology
Volume 14, Issue 7 , Pages 830-838 , July 2007

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