The effect of age on the quality of bone scans using technetium-99m pyrophosphate.
- 1 June 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Radiology
- Vol. 139 (3) , 703-705
- https://doi.org/10.1148/radiology.139.3.6262860
Abstract
An inverse linear correlation was found between patients'' ages and the quality of bone scans. The degrees to which radionuclides were visible in soft tissue, kidneys and particularly cancellous bone were the basis of this correlation.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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