Scintigraphic imaging of focal hypoxic tissue: development and clinical applications of 123I-IAZA

Affected tissues in a number of diseases, including cancer, stroke, cardiac infarction and diabetes, develop focal tissue hypoxia during their progression. The presence of hypoxic tissue may make the disease refractory to therapy, as in the case of solid tumor therapy using low LET ionizing radiatio...

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Main Authors: Leonard I. Wiebe, Alexander J. B. McEwan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná (Tecpar) 2002-09-01
Series:Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132002000500010