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Tuberculosis Research and Treatment
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 618051, 9 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/618051
Research Article
Clinical Evaluation of Efficacy of 99mTC -Ethambutol in Tubercular Lesion Imaging
1Department of Nuclear Medicine, Institute of Nuclear Medicine & Allied Sciences (INMAS), Brig. S.K. Mazumdar Marg Timarpur, New Delhi 1100054, India
2Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research (ACBR), University of Delhi, Delhi 110007, India
Received 31 August 2009; Accepted 2 August 2010
Academic Editor: Brian Eley
Copyright © 2010 Namrata Singh and A. Bhatnagar. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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