Pulmonary perfusion and density gradients in healthy volunteers

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 962-966

  Almquist, Helén M ^a   Palmer, John ^b   Jonson, Björn ^b   Wollmer, Per ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Pulmonary circulation; SPECT; Transmission tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DENSITY GRADIENT; FEMALE; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; LUNG CIRCULATION; LUNG PERFUSION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; TECHNETIUM TC 99M AGGREGATED ALBUMIN; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0030904589     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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