Editorial

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 703-706

  Mari, C ^a   Strauss, H W ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPREOTIDE TC 99M; DIADENOSINE TETRAPHOSPHATE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; LIPOCORTIN 5; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1 I 125; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOISOTOPE;

ANGIOSCOPY; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EDITORIAL; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; SCINTISCANNING;

CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; HUMAN; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; RADIOISOTOPES; HUMANS;

EID: 0035991733     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200208000-00001     Document Type: Editorial

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