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Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1992, Pages 804-813

  Wienhard, Klaus ^a   Eriksson, Lars ^b   Grootoonk, Sylke ^c   Casey, Mike ^d   Pietrzyk, Uwe ^a   Heiss, Wolf Dieter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d CTI Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Apparatus and equipment; Emission computed tomography; Performance evaluation; Techniques

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

APPARATUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; HEART; PERFORMANCE; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMAN; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0026802021     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: 15323145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004728-199209000-00024     Document Type: Article

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