Improved wrist fracture localization with digital overlay of bone scintigrams and radiographs

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1600-1603

  Roolker, W ^a   Tiel van Buul, M M C ^a   Broekhuizen, A H ^a   Eikelenboom, A K ^a   Van Royen, E A ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bone scintigraphy; Multimodality; Wrist

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAPHOID BONE; WRIST FRACTURE;

ADULT; CARPAL BONES; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M MEDRONATE; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC; WRIST INJURIES;

EID: 0030744923     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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