18F-DOPA PET and enhanced CT imaging for congenital hyperinsulinism: initial UK experience from a technologist’s perspective

INTRODUCTIONCongenital hyperinsulinism (CHI) is the most common cause of persistent hypoglycaemia in infants and children. Histologically, there are two subgroups, diffuse and focal. The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of F-fluoro-L-dihydroxyphenylalanine (F-DOPA) PET/computed tomogra...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Nuclear medicine communications 2013-06, Vol.34 (6), p.601-608
Hauptverfasser:	Meintjes, Marguerite, Endozo, Raymond, Dickson, John, Erlandsson, Kjel, Hussain, Khalid, Townsend, Caroline, Menezes, Leon, Bomanji, Jamshed
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Child Child, Preschool Congenital Hyperinsulinism - diagnostic imaging Dihydroxyphenylalanine - analogs & derivatives Female Humans Infant Infant, Newborn Male Medical Laboratory Personnel Multimodal Imaging - methods Positron-Emission Tomography Retrospective Studies Tomography, X-Ray Computed United Kingdom
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