Design, construction and six years' experience of an integrated system for automated handling of discrete blood samples

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 85-90

  Andersson, Jesper L R ^a,b   Schneider, Harald ^a,b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Subfemtomole Biorecognition Project   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Automation; Blood sampling; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CENTRIFUGATION; COMPUTER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; ROBOTICS; WEIGHT;

AUTOMATION; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CRYSTALLIZATION; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; ROBOTICS; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0031910372     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002590050198     Document Type: Article

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