RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 An Improved Method of Sulfur Colloid Radioaerosol Nebulization
JF Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
JO J. Nucl. Med. Technol.
FD Society of Nuclear Medicine
SP 137
OP 139
VO 11
IS 3
A1 Logus, J. Wayne
A1 Jette, Diane C.
A1 Man, S.F. Paul
YR 1983
UL http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/11/3/137.abstract
AB Radioaerosols have been used experimentally for a number of years as lung imaging agents. However, adherence of particles of rhenium-stabilized Tc-99m sulfur colloid within air-blast nebulizers has limited their usefulness. We have devised a method to reduce the surface charge on the particles, and thus their adherence, by addition of human serum albumin. This intervention does not alter the aerodynamic characteristics of the aerosol.