PET diagnostic accuracy: Improvement with in-line PET-CT system: Initial results

Radiology

Volumn 225, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 575-581

  Hany, Thomas F ^a   Steinert, Hans C ^a   Goerres, Gerhard W ^a   Buck, Alfred ^a   Von Schulthess, Gustav K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT), helical; Data fusion; Images, fusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0036829409     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2252011568     Document Type: Article

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