Enhanced accuracy and reproducibility in reporting of lung scintigrams by a segmental reference chart

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1095-1099

  Magnussen, John S ^a   Chicco, Peter ^b   Palmer, Amanda W ^b   Mackey, Douglas W ^b   Magee, Michael ^b   Murray, I Provan C ^b   Bautovich, George ^b   Allman, Kevin ^b   Storey, Geoffrey ^b   Van Der Wall, Hans ^b  

^a Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Lung scintigraphy; Lung segmental reference chart; Monte Carlo simulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG LOBE; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LUNG; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0031837713     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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