Patient-related pitfalls and artifacts in nuclear medicine imaging

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 295-307

  Howarth, Douglas M ^a,b   Forstrom, Lee A ^a,b   O'Connor, Michael K ^a   Thomas, Paul A ^a,b   Paul Cardew, A ^a,b  

^a JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTUBATION; REVIEW; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTIFACTS; CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; INTUBATION; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0030253103     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-2998(96)80005-5     Document Type: Article

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