The role of single photon emission computed tomography in bone imaging

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 3-16

  Sarikaya, Ismet ^a,b   Sarikaya, Ali ^a,b   Holder, Lawrence E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TRAKYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

TRACER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BACKACHE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; COLLIMATOR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMUR HEAD NECROSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; SCINTIGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPINE METASTASIS; SPINE TUMOR; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDER; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0035191262     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/snuc.2001.18736     Document Type: Article

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